-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I believe that Linux queries the drive directly while many other OSs rely on the information that the BIOS provides. Your older BIOS does not recognize anything more than 137 GB and thus that is all older versions of Windows see. I avoid Vista where possible, it is too much like Java in that is makes my new computers run as fast as my 486 :)
John Jardine wrote: | Hi Greg, | | I haven't been in this problem domain for a few years so I could be a | little out of date. | | The short version is that Linux controls the drives without resorting to | the machines BIOS. I think newer versions of Windows do this now too. | | The older BIOS's supported the largest drives of their day - but of | course time moves on. The C/H/S usage has changed expanding the maximum | describable capacity. | | Cheers, | J.J. | | On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 10:51 -0600, Greg King wrote: |> Hi list, |> |> |> |> I added a 500GB Seagate drive to an older HP PC (circa 2001) as a |> second drive. Seagates “seatools” seems to think it is OK and |> diagnostics run fine. Whenever I boot Windoze it only sees 137GB. If |> I boot Knoppix it sees the whole drive and was able to create a ~500GB |> ext3 filesystem. So I create a 500GB ntfs filesystem with |> Knoppix/gpartd and boot windoze again but it only sees 137GB. |> |> |> |> I contacted HP and was told that my PC chipsets cannot utilize drives |> over 120GB. How does Linux get around this limitation? Is HP blowing |> smoke where the sun doesn’t shine? |> |> |> |> Confused… Greg |> |> |> _______________________________________________ |> clug-talk mailing list |> [email protected] |> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca |> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) |> **Please remove these lines when replying | | | _______________________________________________ | clug-talk mailing list | [email protected] | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca | Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) | **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIg8pcwRXgH3rKGfMRAhmcAKCf3SjOWg3l6GxzEFn2CwVNQD/TWQCfcvAF O3EV0wmItqoG/443Yes2IcY= =Nafy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
