I had that problem with Dell's at my old job. What you can do is try to get a bios update. All we needed to do was patch the hell out of the Dells to get them to take the 20 and 40 gig HD's we were buying. Also, try typing in the CHS numbers and see if it comes up as 37 gigs. If it dosen't, then you know your BIOS needs to be patched.
Emanuel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Smith Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Hard Drive question Said Faisal Naeem on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:07:25PM -0500, > 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. Well, one thing to note is that hard drive manufacturers measure their drives in billions-of-bytes, and call that a gig. So if your drive says 40G, it is probably 40e9 bytes ~= 37 GB. Still, that's no 33. Does the drive have the capacity written on the label? Also, you may want to check the Large-Disk-HOWTO. ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO -- fingerprint: 740F B8D9 DF20 362C F5BC CDE6 6923 5A48 7657 541F lynx -source http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~jhs/public_key.gpg | gpg --import --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
