I am not sure if this will help ...
but I had a similar problem with Windows NT. Windows NT workstation 4.0
supports disks of upto 8GB. If you want to use a bigger disk , you have to
download a fixed ATAPI dirver or install Service Pack 4.
Mebbe the IDE driver in Linux has the same problems ?
Vishal
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> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 2:51 PM
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> Dear Linux Users
>
> I have been desparately trying to configure a 17GB IDE Hard Disk to work
> with RED HAT LINUX 6.1 & Win 98. It is a SEAGATE HARD DISK MODEL NO: ST
> 317221A
>
> I have already tried the following :
> 1. Created Primary DOS Partition of 8 GB & Extended DOS Partition
> of 4 GB, using WIN98, enabling FAT32 & Formatted the drives.
> Successfully
> loaded WIN98.
>
> 2. Booted the system using the LINUX CD & started LINUX CUSTOM
> installation. On adding any size NATIVE LINUX partition using
> mount point "
> / " , the partition is not created. It gives an error message
> that "No free
> space to allocate the partition size", despite the fact, that an entire 4
> GB is free. But Linux Swap partition is sucessfully created.
>
> 3. We have also tired with FAT 16 partitions of 2.1 GB size each. But
> the result is the same.
>
> Kindly provide assistance asap.
> Sanjay Agrawal
>
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