RE: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
I had the same problem with my Presario 4840 - the BIOS only sees 8G on a
drive... I ended up using Maxtor's BIOS extension software to install it,
fdisk it and format it (under DOS), then removed the Maxblast software and
it seemed to work fine... It's an extension of the 2G BIOS limitation that
used to exist and usually requires a BIOS update to solve...
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> From: Oliver Elphick[SMTP:olly@lfix.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 12:47 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
>
> I've just got a 10.2Gb IDE drive, but I cannot find an fdisk that allows
> more than 8Gb
>
> root@linda# sfdisk -s /dev/hdb
> 10022040
>
> root@linda# sfdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> 1024 * 8225280 = 8.2Gb approx
>
> What can I do to get the full capacity of the disk recognised?
>
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