FW: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
For my new 8.4gb hard drive, I placed the Win95 partition at the front, and
Windows FDISK thinks there are 1023 cylinders. Linux knows about the full
4088 cylinders, via LOADLIN boot parm "HDA=4088,64,63".
Now both systems boot ok, and I don't have to use MaxBlast.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray [SMTP:maillists@sonictech.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 2:18 PM
> To: Debian User Mailing List
> Subject: Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk?
> > Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it.
>
> Be VERY carefull with these types of utils. If you ever have trouble with
> the drive it will be difficult or impossible to recover unless you know
> exactly how the utility works and how it effects how Linux and Win. see
> the
> drive. With both Win. and LILO potentially mucking around in your MBR you
> really don't want another utility digging around in there too.
>
> It's much better to try to get a bios update for your motherboard or a
> controller that has a bios built in. For Linux you can specify the
> geometry
> directly if you must. For Windows, you may need an update from MS to get
> it to deal
> with large drives (depending on what revision of Windows is being used)
> even
> with a bios upgrade.
>
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