On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:44:16PM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've an Ultra10 workstation with Debian on it. > I just bought a new Hitachi Deskstar 250GB an install in it. > Here is wat i get in my logs : > ... > hdb: HDS722525VLAT80, ATA DISK drive > hdb: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/7938KiB Cache, CHS=266305/16/63, (U)DMA > ... > > My problem is that it only recognise a maximum of 30GB (glurps !! :-) after > setting up with fdisk utilities. > I tried different specifications in fdisk but no success, i'm stuck with the > number of Cylinders : the drive specifies 266305 and fdisk don't let me > specify more than 65535.
You need an LBA48 capable IDE controller, else it wont use > 127Gigs. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
