> I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to partition > it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and Linux > bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:(
How about using fdisk instead? In the worse case, you can manually specify the cylinders, heads, and sectors in fdisk.