Dear All, Thank you all for your help and emails (sorry for not be able to reply to you individually). I had managed to install RH 8.0 (network install, about 5 hours) last night and everything is fine so far. Cheers James Wang --- Andreas Baier <andreas.baier@mindmatics.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I donīt think that this is a ext3 Problem, since you > have problems > partitioning that disk. > > Perhaps a hdparm -i /dev/hdX could shine some light > on this, > also a fdisk -l /dev/hdX could be useful. > > > For now - let me guess: > <guess> > To me, it seems, that the disk is clipped to 32GB, > perhaps the > mainboard bios can not cope with a disk >32GB - just > a thought. > > Since the manufactorer knows that every customer > would be angry having > a crippled disk, he *might* have installed a vendor > software to > enlarge the disk to the real size. This runs fine > under windows, but > in no-way under Linux > Then Windows was installed on top and this was > running fine. > > After repartitioning, the disk-software is gone, and > so leaving you > with 32GB capacity alone. > </guess> > > Try the hdparm and fdisk commands and send the > outputs, if the mailing > list might not be interested because of OT, send it > to me - I am > curious about this. > > Bye > > Andreas > > > >RedHat 6.2 with kernel versison 2.2.14 can handle > >large disk size (> 34 GB). However, I own > experience > >told another story - it seams that RedHat 6.2 > could > >NOT handle hard drive size above 34 GB! > > > -- > Andreas Baier > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
