From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Subject: Re: New Harddrive problems Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:16:54 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020429221654.GX23141@piku.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'linux-admin@vger.kernel.org'" On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 03:56:50PM -0600, omland@minotaur.colorado.edu wrote: | Hi all, I have a new harddrive I want to run as a slave. I just got it, | its size is like 180gig or something. However from linux when I do a mkfs | on the device then mount it, its only 30gigs? Can anyone tell me how to | make it so it regonizes all 180gigs, I tried fdisk too. Check there's no size limiting jumper on the drive (some have a "limit to 30GB" jumper on them). Also, does your BIOS see it as a 180GB drive? And does Linux when it boots up? Look for the drive id string being printed. My PC has a 60GB drive in it and the BIOS can't cope, so I have to disable it and let Linux find it on its own (this doesn't work if you want to boot off it though!). Then, does fdisk let you make a partition > 30GB? -- I will not barf unless I'm sick 6AD6 865A BF6E 76BB 1FC2 | www.piku.org.uk/public-key.asc E4C4 DEEA 7D08 D511 E149 | www.piku.org.uk wnzrf@cvxh.bet.hx (rot13'd)