Resolution:
Thanks to all. This problem is now resolved.
What was necessary was to switch the BIOS to disk type USER and enter
the c/h/s figures off the drive, because the updated BIOS still didn't
auto-detect these. (I had assumed that these were limited by bitcount
and hadn't tried to exceed
David B.Teague wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > > >
> > > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk?
> > > Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it.
> > [snip]
>
--Original Message-
> From: Ray [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 2:18 PM
> To: Debian User Mailing List
> Subject: Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > I
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ray wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > >
> > Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk?
> > Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it.
> [snip]
> It's much better to try to get a
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:18:08AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> >
> Is there software like MaxBlast or EZBios that comes with the disk?
> Debian 2.0 is working well for me with a disk with EZBios on it.
Be VERY carefull with these types of utils. If you ever have trouble with
the drive it w
Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> Thanks to those who have replied.
>
> Let me recapitulate:
>
> I have a 10.2Gb disk.
>
> I am using an updated BIOS, which recognises 10Gb of space and does not
> attempt to show a geometry.
>
> `sfdisk -s' shows the correct size: 10022040
>
> However, cfdisk actuall
if you haven't already..try to find a flash update for your bios. or you
could use one of those disk utils that allow windows to access more then
8GB. however you would have(i believe?) to boot linux via loadlin for
that to work with linux. maybe not. i'm not sure. i hate those disk utils
for one
Thanks to those who have replied.
Let me recapitulate:
I have a 10.2Gb disk.
I am using an updated BIOS, which recognises 10Gb of space and does not
attempt to show a geometry.
`sfdisk -s' shows the correct size: 10022040
However, cfdisk actually assigns 8Gb and then considers the disk to be
10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
>I've just got a 10.2Gb IDE drive, but I cannot find an fdisk that allows
>more than 8Gb
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -s /dev/hdb
>10022040
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
>Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinder
"Oliver Elphick" writes:
> I've just got a 10.2Gb IDE drive, but I cannot find an fdisk that allows
> more than 8Gb
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -s /dev/hdb
> 10022040
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 82252
ation that
used to exist and usually requires a BIOS update to solve...
> --
> From: Oliver Elphick[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 12:47 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible
>
> I
I've just got a 10.2Gb IDE drive, but I cannot find an fdisk that allows
more than 8Gb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -s /dev/hdb
10022040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sfdisk -l /dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
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