Kero van Gelder writes: | > I've got my first notebook a Dell Inspiron 5000. For all I've read, | > I thought this one would work with Linux. But: | > First thing, Linux complains about the harddisk which was preinstalled | > with WIN98 (sorry for the words...). It has 12GB. After killing all | > partitions under DOS, formatting and the mbr, Linux pretends to see a | > 7,7GB harddisk. | > Is this a known bug with some controllers ? Is there a driver to fix it ? | > Any other ideas ? | | ``Linux says''... | fdisk? disk druid? other partitioning programs? | | 12GB is quite big (==new? ==unsupported?) for a LapTop drive. I have | no idea what it could be.
I have a I7K, potato-ized. I have a 14Gb drive thereon, it works fine. What geometry mode have you set? LBA? CHS? "Big"? What does fdisk -l report as the disk geometry? Mine says 240H, 63S, 1826C. Mx.
