Re: Is Hard drive too big?
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:35:36PM -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> 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.
You can also write down that cylinder/sectors/heads info the kernel
outputs, and then tell fdisk what they are (see expert mode). Of
course, upgrading fdisk is probably a good thing anyway.
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