Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

[David Puryear <dayear@codenet.net>]

On 18-Dec-98 Steve Hsieh wrote:
>> I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to
>> partition
>> it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and
>> Linux
>> bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:(
> 
> How about using fdisk instead?  In the worse case, you can manually
> specify the cylinders, heads, and sectors in fdisk.

Tried it using
cfdisk -c 16383 -h 16 -s 63 /dev/hdb

But it still only shows 8G.

Is there anything else that I can change?
Thanks,
David