Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:34:57 +0100 | From | Wichert Akkerman <> | Subject | Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk |
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Previously Khimenko Victor wrote: > You gave way not enough information to gave you wise answer (what version of > kernel you are using, what motherboard, what version of hdparm, etc, etc).
Kernel: 2.2.14pre11. hdparm version 3.6. Motherboard is an Intel SE440BX.
> Try to do the following: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > > Then reboot. This way you'll destroy partition table completely and kernel > will not try to use it to determine size of disk.
Already tried that, it doesn't help. That was actually the very first thing I tried..
Wichert.
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