On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paras Patel wrote: > I've been running into this problem at work trying to install two new > harddrives into a Dell XPS D266. The drives are manufactured by Seagate, > with a capacity of ~13GB. The first issue that I thought was the problem > was the BIOS, so I upgraded that to the latest version. Then I thought, > all I needed to do was to partition my hard drives. In the Linux boot-up > screen, it seems to register my drives and their true capacity, but I > cannot seem to realize this capacity while I am using cfdisk or fdisk. > Anyone have an idea of what might be troubling me? Any approches to get > past this problems.
I have a 25G hard drive and ran into a similar problem. The solution in my case was to upgrade to the latest fdisk in unstable. fdisk_2.10d from the debian package util-linux_2.10d-5 works great. -- Jean Pierre
