Re: 8G ide harddrive limit?

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> writes:
|   From:
|         David Puryear <dayear@codenet.net>
| 
| Hi all,
| 
| 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.:(
| 
| Running 2.0.36(my own roll) and mostly Debian 2.0 with few updates.

Try fdisk. I seem to recall hearing about this problem in cfdisk. If
that doesn't work you may be stuck downloading a newer version of
fdisk, from sunsite.unc.edu or similiar, and trying that.

Hey you live on the edge, you pay the price! ;)

Gary