This is almost certainly a kernel problem. However, it is quite likely that different distros have their kernels configured differently.
I've seen strange problems with big hard drives and 2.4.18. Actually, I lost an entire hard-drive because I partitioned and created the fs under knoppix (2.4.22), but was using the system under stable (2.4.18). It seems like, somehow, 2.4.18 will not recognize more than 137GB (dmesg | grep hd will tell you). In my case, upgrading the kernel to (at the time) 2.4.22 resolved the problem nicely.
Again, it may be a configuration issue in the kernel, but I was in a hurry and had to take the quickest path to solve the problem.
Regards, Paga
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