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SubjectRe: Problems with Maxtor 120 GB drive
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Jay Denebeim wrote:

> I just purchased a Maxtor 120GB MXTL01P120 hard drive and when I tried
> to install it with Redhat it wrote over the partition table describing
> it as only 8GB. I tried doing linux rescue and lilo complained that
> the physical and logical disk sizes did not match (logical was the
> correct size, physical was the 8GB).

I'm no guru here, but as far as I know, 8GB will be about all you'll see
without using logical block addressing (LBA). Using the lba32 option in
your lilo.conf might help.

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