RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD
If I get what your saying here. Linux does report the correct heads,sectors,
cylinders as the manufacture claims are on the disk. But it only reports
6.1GB FDISK sees only this too.
Rod
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> From: Philippe Andersson[SMTP:philippe_andersson@ste.scitex.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 12:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD
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> Hi folks,
>
> I may be missing the point here, but it looks to me that if you use the
> hdparm utility (DOS utility - you'll have to put it on a DOS boot
> floppy) to check the drive geometry as reported by the BIOS, then go to
> Linux and check that fdisk uses the same geometry parameters, you can
> verify that your linux isn't missing any part of your disk. Right ?
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ph. A.
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