"Oliver Elphick" writes:
> I've just got a 10.2Gb IDE drive, but I cannot find an fdisk that allows
> more than 8Gb
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -s /dev/hdb
> 10022040
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 82252
I had the same problem with my Presario 4840 - the BIOS only sees 8G on a
drive... I ended up using Maxtor's BIOS extension software to install it,
fdisk it and format it (under DOS), then removed the Maxblast software and
it seemed to work fine... It's an extension of the 2G BIOS limitation that
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