I have just purchased a Maxstor 80GB Hard drive (D740X-6L). The computer is a new P4 1.6 and the bios auto-detects it properly. It is mounted as hdc (it is master on second ide channel with no slave) When I use diskdrake, I can see the drive but, it reports it as being a 76GB drive (96% usage). When I delete the partitions, create a new partition that takes the whole space, it still reports 96% and not 100% usage. When I try to format the drive as ext2 or ext3 or reiserfs, diskdrake reports that it fails and cannot format the drive. When I use fdisk, and create a ext2 partition, everything appears correct, but when I save the partition table, reboot and try to mkfs the harddrive, it reports that the drive is not a block special device, do I want to continue, and if I say yes, it fails. I have tried multiple different drives of the same make and model, and I have tried different sized partitions, with the same results. It appears the drive formating programs are having a problem with the size of the drive.
Can anyone give me some guidence so that I may use this drive with linux? thanks Dalton
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