I seem to recall reading that sometimes if you have LBA enabled in BIOS it
will mis-represent the drive size to Linux. You should try going into BIOS
and setting it to "normal" or "large" instead. See if that helps... if not,
I'm baffled. :-)
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Koyote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Charles M Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 1999 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: partition size limit
> >When Red Hat 5.2 boots it says it detects a 1888MB hdd, and I have a
> 4.1GB. When Disk Druid partitions this drive, will it only allow me to
> have partitions the size of 1888MB? If so, how do I take full
> advantage of the hdd? Do I just have two or more partitions? And does
> any other kernels ( I have 2.0.36) offer support for these hdds?
>
> ???
>
> I may not be understanding you- you say that you have a 4.1 gb and
> diskdruid only sees 1.8?
>
> If that is the case, something is wrong. I used rh5.2 for a bit, and
> this did *not* happen (I have a 4 gig and a 3,84 gig drives.)
>
> Are you running free of other operating sytems?
>
> Koyote
>
> >
> >Matthew
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