Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
if you haven't already..try to find a flash update for your bios. or you
could use one of those disk utils that allow windows to access more then
8GB. however you would have(i believe?) to boot linux via loadlin for
that to work with linux. maybe not. i'm not sure. i hate those disk utils
for one thing tho, i'd rather buy a new MB.
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Thanks to those who have replied.
>
> Let me recapitulate:
>
> I have a 10.2Gb disk.
>
> I am using an updated BIOS, which recognises 10Gb of space and does not
> attempt to show a geometry.
>
> `sfdisk -s' shows the correct size: 10022040
>
> However, cfdisk actually assigns 8Gb and then considers the disk to be
> fully used.
>
> I believe I can get round this by specifying a higher cylinder count than
> 1024; however, I also need a Windows 95 partition and I don't know how
> to get Windows to recognise any changes I may make in Linux. Windows
> also recognises only 8Gb, though the Large disk mini-HOWTO appears to
> suggest that it knows about >8Gb disks.
>
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