Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:09 +1000 | From | Stuart Longland <> | Subject | Re: Problems with Maxtor 120 GB drive |
| |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
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.
- -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org | | Brisbane Mesh Node: 719 http://stuartl.cjb.net/ | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | | Griffith Student No: Course: Bachelor/IT (Nathan) | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQE/iRzMIGJk7gLSDPcRAkqfAJ0UAV5nVhdTbLZ5FqSOsv8sUmT7MwCfT/OJ HhGjZzU6WiXOAAfMAyvT26g= =p0ya -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| ![\](/images/icornerr.gif) |