On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:22:05PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 19:33:19 -0400, > max bianco <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I haven't tried it again but I used the whole drive on install of > > fedora originally and again to reinstall, so best guess is its in some > > sort of built onto the board mechanism, i'd try it again but my gf > > probably wouldn't appreciate me doing that on purpose a second time > > just to test a theory. I am pretty sure its built into the MOBO > > though. > > How did you check that? Drives have a way of reserving space at the end, that > the installer wouldn't see. Unless you checked for this reserved space > explicitly, it wouldn't be noticeable. > For PATA drives you can use the program at: > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/setmax.c > I don't know if the same feature is available for SATA or SCSI drives, > but if it is you will need a different tool to check them. Newest versions of MediaDirect (version 3 and higher IIRC) don't use the Host Protected Area of the drives anymore. They use partition table swizzling code to hide/unhide the MD partition. -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
