On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:52:08AM +0000, Jose Albores wrote:
> I've bought a new 13 Gb. Maxtor hard drive and I was trying to share it
> among Linux and Windoze.
I recently got one of those myself. I can't answer all of your questions,
but I'll answer what I can.
> When I asked BIOS to "Detect IDE" the BIOS found just... 8 Gb for the
> new HD, with the proper number of cylinders, heads and sectors. I have a
> 1998 TX-Pro motherboard supporting a Penthium 233 MMX processor (too old
> hardware for a 13 Gb. HD???).
I had the same problem, however ...
> Windows fdisk just "saw" the unsufficient 8 Gb. I made two partitions of
> 4 Gb each with dos-fdisk.
... this system does not now nor has it ever run an M$ system.
> But running "fdisk /dev/hdc" under linux for re-partitioning the new HD,
> linux could "see" the complete 13 Gb and it seems I could succesfully
> make new DOS and Linux partitions in this new hard drive. !?
And as you found out Linux is perfectly happy with that drive. I carved
mine into 6 partitions - the original plan was to install a different
distro onto each partition. I don't know about doing DOS partitions but
Linux fdisk had no troubles here.
> The questions are:
> 1. Working in such environment: maybe harmful for my hardware/software?
> I mean: can I make any damage to my Motherboard or to any hard drive?
> Will I loose suddenly some info/partitions without warning?
Unlikely. I've been using that 13 gig drive as data storage for some
time now and have had zero trouble with it.
<rest snipped - sorry but I don't know about them>
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