Re: Is Hard drive too big?
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote:
> I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new
> harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate,
> with a capacity of ~13GB. The first issue that I thought was the problem
> was the BIOS, so I upgraded that to the latest version. Then I thought,
> all I needed to do was to partition my hard drives. In the Linux boot-up
> screen, it seems to register my drives and their true capacity, but I
> cannot seem to realize this capacity while I am using cfdisk or fdisk.
> Anyone have an idea of what might be troubling me? Any approches to get
> past this problems.
I have a 25G hard drive and ran into a similar problem. The
solution in my case was to upgrade to the latest fdisk in
unstable. fdisk_2.10d from the debian package util-linux_2.10d-5
works great.
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Jean Pierre
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