Rick Thomas wrote:
Controllers that don't believe in disks larger than 137 GB(decimal) report any disk larger than that as being exactly 137 GB in size. This is probably why cfdisk et al are telling you that your partitions go beyond the end of the disk -- as far as they know, the disk ends before the beginning of the partition: at 137 GB.
It's a good sign that Windows can see the tail of the disk. That means that the controller is capable of seeing it, even if Linux isn't forcing the right mode to make it do so. It's also a hopeful sign that Knoppix can mount the partitions on the tail of the disk.
To see if the problem really lies with parted and/or cfdisk you might try them under Knoppix...
Is there a jumper or BIOS setting for the controller (or on the disk itself) to tell it to always use large disk mode? (I don't know what the official name for that mode is -- maybe somebody on the list knows?) That would be worth a try.
I think the mode is called LBA48. I carefully avoided disks larger than 120 Mbytes because I expected problems with them, then I got a 120 Gbyte LBA48 drive. My Athlon system required a BIOS upgrade to accommodate it.
I think there are now drives down to 80 Gbytes that are LBA48.
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