>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Str|mberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:05:24 +0200
Mark> I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Mark> Dell P-II 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it Mark> sees only 8 GB. I believe that this is due to a limit in Mark> cfdisk which sets the max number of sectors to 1024. Mine Mark> should have 1227 (approx). Mark> When I boot Linux it identifies my hard drive and says it has Mark> 9.6 GB. Also, when I used Partition Magic to reformat my Mark> windoze 95 area, it saw all of my disk. Mark> I am running linux 2.0.34, cfdisk 0.8l (from util-linux-2.8), Mark> on Debian 1.3.1r8. Mark> Is this a program limitation? Is there a workaround? Is Mark> there another program for Linux that I could use? Martin> Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and Martin> I have a 8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders Martin> 784. Those are not near any 1024 limit. Yes, LBA is enabled in the BIOS. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
