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. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
