New question #78309 on Ubuntu: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/78309
Installed Seagate Barracuda ES 2 Terabyte drive. Installed Ubuntu with no problems save the one. I'm using a fatal1ty-an9-32x motherboard with nVidia chipset, AMD duo 2 +4800. Debian reports the same size (137 gb) for the hard drive. Windows XP sees the drive correctly at 1 terabyte. The firmware on the hard drive is up to date according to Seagate Technician. Seatools for Dos and BIOS see the drive as terabyte. BIOS has latest firmware update (rvision 19). In Seatools for Dos it shows the harddrive using Max native address. If I manually reset in Seatools for Dos the Max addresses, I see the whole drive in Ubuntu. If I reboot again it is lost. Grub geometry shows: grub> geometry (hd1) geometry (hd1) drive 0x81: C/H/S = 16709/255/63, The number of sectors = 268435455, /dev/sdb Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> Which shows some of the partitions. One is missing, a swap partition for another version of Linux. Fdisk is unable to read the drive: p...@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for paul: Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x200d200c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2 16709 134207010 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda2 * 16710 24321 61143390 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda5 2 16709 134206978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Unable to seek on /dev/sdb p...@ubuntu:~$ My first drive has Windows XP. Seatools for Linus shows: p...@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for paul: Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x200d200c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2 16709 134207010 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda2 * 16710 24321 61143390 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda5 2 16709 134206978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Unable to seek on /dev/sdb p...@ubuntu:~$ I've tried to reinstall grub with the --force-LBA, didn't work. I used grub geometry to set the cylinders heads and sectors - didn't work. I've reinstalled several times - didn't work. I would really like to use the whole drive. Hope you have some ideas. -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
