> ...had a similar problem with an ICL laptop that was used as standard at > the time by Sun. You couldn't install any disk larger than 5GB. It just > wouldn't see it. Maybe you're a year or 2 up on that one, and it sees it > but won't let you play with it?
Everything's possible! I think the reasons with this Armada are more nefarious though. SuSE 8.0 used to work just fine (sans DMA on the 20GB though), but it was time to upgrade. Ooops. As the machine is really too slow, another effort on the DMA was a good idea. In the process the whole story went belly-up. There are quite a number of variables in this and it would take a lot of time pinning it down. Chance could be a factor - the 8.0 files happened to be this side of the disk... Or there's some stupid setting needed for 20GB which the distro installer would put in if I spent the time installing from 4 CDs on a 4x drive. And so on. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
