On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Andreas Baier wrote: > 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> > Just a note: I have 80G disk (ST380021A), which is clipped to 32G. However, there is "Auto-Geometry resizing support"/"CONFIG_IDEDISK_STORE" option in kernel, which "strokes" remains bits out of disk. So the disk have correct size and dimension without EZ-drive or similar vendor software. (This option will do similar things to the drive.) I found that this link was very helpfull: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html BR, Jani -- Jani Averbach _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
