[95983] in RedHat Linux List
RE: FDISK and IDE drives over 8G
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richardson,Anthony)
Thu Oct 22 17:11:18 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 06:07:00 -0400
From: "Richardson,Anthony" <ARichard@stark.cc.oh.us>
To: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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It sounds as if you're just allowing the kernel to look at the BIOS
for the geometry and not telling it to use a geometry that more closely
matches your drive size. (The 8GB limit is a BIOS limit.)
Find out what geometry fdisk thinks the drive has now and then tell
the kernel that the drive has more cylinders when you boot by adding
hda=cyls,heads,sects
as a kernel boot option. You can have LILO add this option
automatically by adding
append="hda=cyls,heads,sects"
to the Linux stanza in /etc/lilo.conf and running lilo.
Be sure to increase only the number of cylinders and not the heads or
sectors values.
Tony
On Thursday, October 22, 1998 4:53 PM, redhat-list
[SMTP:redhat-list@redhat.com] wrote:
> << File: jburnell.vcf >>
> I'm sure this is an FAQ...
>
> When will FDISK and/or Disk Druid be updated to handle IDE drives
> which
> are larger than 8G?
>
> Please reply to me as well as to the list, or give me a pointer to
> the
> FAQs....
>
> jim
>
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