Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD
OK, go into fdisk and have it looking at your drive. Use 'u' to make
sure it's reporting everything in cylinders. Use 'p' to show the
partition table.
1) is it showing the number of C/H/S the manufacturer shows on the
drive?
2) if you multiply out the number of cylinders with the numbers given
for 'units', do you get about 6.4G?
If the answer to 1) is 'no', Linux is not seeing all your drive, for
some very weird reason. (Very unlikely)
If the answer to 1) is 'yes' and 2) is 'no', your disk manufacturer is
lying to you. (Possible)
If it's 'yes' and 'yes', take a real close look at that partition
table. Maybe you haven't partitioned out every part of the disk! (This
is *my* guess).
If this doesn't solve it, show us the printouts from fdisk. Sheesh.
Person, Roderick wrote:
>
> 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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> >
> > 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 ?
> >
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