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From: Benjamin S Carrell <ben@xmission.com>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 20:14:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3D0718.2060602@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10201091745470.5104-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

I would think that you lose that space to formatting (would it not get 
the size of the drive from the bios?), but I stand open for correction.

-Ben Carrell
ben@xmission.com

Andre Hedrick wrote:

>another update request --
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:16:12 -0800
>From: ablew@internetcds.com
>To: andre@linux-ide.org
>Subject: Bigggg Maxtor drives
>
>Hi there.  As I understand it you're the linux IDE guy,
>so if you don't mind answering a question for me, I'd
>appriciate it.
>
>I recently bought a Maxtor 4G160J8.  This hard drive is
>Maxtor's biggest harddrive as of yet, coming in at
>160GB.  Linux sees this drive as a mere 134 or so gigs
>as shown by the below:
>
>hde: Maxtor 4G160J8, ATA DISK drive
>hde: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
>CHS=266305/16/63, UDMA(33) hde: hde1
>
>Do I need to pass the kernel any arguments though grub
>to see the full size, or is this just a kernel level
>limitation?
>
>Any help is appriciated.
>
>Thanks,
>-Aaron
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-10  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10  1:46 Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) Andre Hedrick
2002-01-10  3:14 ` Benjamin S Carrell [this message]
2002-01-10  4:03   ` Chris Ball
2002-01-10  4:31     ` Jim Crilly
2002-01-10 12:11       ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-10 12:15         ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 13:22           ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2002-01-10 14:56             ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-10 15:04               ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 12:23         ` Lionel Bouton
2002-01-10 12:40         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 12:45           ` David Weinehall
2002-01-10 13:47             ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 18:59         ` Aaron Blew
2002-01-10 19:14           ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-10 19:14       ` Ricky Beam
2002-01-10 19:59         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-10 19:08     ` Ricky Beam
2002-01-10  4:59   ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-10  9:50     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-01-11 21:13     ` Rogier Wolff
2002-01-12  9:14       ` Andre Hedrick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-10 10:00 Andries.Brouwer

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