sorry it's getting confusing, I failed to mention this but the drive is a 40GB slave that I'm using to store mpegs and such. All those commands worked and here is the output.
I had problems pasting in this HP-UX term I'm on now so I put the output in a file: http://the45.net/~ryan/output.txt /dev/hdb1 is the drive I'm having problems with. I can boot in linux just fine. -ryan On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Mike Simons wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > On this machine the drive comes up right away as having 32MB. It's an old > > motherboard, 1995 or so and even after I specified in the BIOS the number of > > heads and cylinders there is another option in the BIOS that says Max Size: 8GB > > So when I went and did an fdisk/mkfs, the size of the drive is 32GB. Everything > > works fine, I just want my 10 extra gigs. So I should be able to get around the > > BIOS issue in linux? > [...] > > > - So have you tried booting Linux on that machine? > > > - Does the BIOS hang when you try to detect the drive size, or just > > > mis-report the drive size? > > So this is getting confusing, you have not said how big the drive > really is... from what I gather you think it is 42 Gig. > > I'm not sure if you answered my first question about if you had tried > booting that drive in Linux. It's unclear but I think you say you did > boot in Linux. > > Can you do the following: > ---- > Boot the machine into Linux > Mail the output from the following commands: > === > uname -a > dmesg | grep ^hd > cat /proc/partitions > cat /proc/ide/hd*/[cg]*y > for x in a b c d; do hdparm -i /dev/hd$x; done > for x in a b c d; do fdisk -l /dev/hd$x; done > === > --- > > If you have problems with any of those commands mail the output you > can and error messages you get for the rest. > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
