I bought the drive specifically so I can run linux and maybe Solaris 8 etc
on it. I have w2k on my primary hard drive and even partition magic
detects the drive as 33G which is disconcerting.

 On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Wei-shi Tsai wrote:

>
>
> Faisal Naeem wrote:
>
> > I just bought a 40 G Maxtor drive. I have it hooked up as a secondary
> > master, but my BIOS tends to detect it as 33GB. Any ideas what might be
> > causing this problem.
>
>
>
> Some BIOS have problems detecting drive capacity past 32GB.  If you are
> running Linux or Windows 2000, you should have no problems using the
> drive to its fullest capacity.
>
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> Wei-shi Tsai
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