[lug] How to Recognize Big Drive?

[Sexton, George]

If Adaptec controller is a 2940UW or later, you can flash update the bios to
something more current.

That said, it looks to me like you are using a IDE drive that would not be
attached to the Adaptec controller.

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From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of James Stroud
Sent: 29 September, 2001 3:35 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] How to Recognize Big Drive?


I am running Red Hat 7.1 on a P200 with a BIOS from 1996 (Adaptec v 1.3). I
am having trouble with fdisk properly partitioning the drive. It is a Maxtor
Diamond Max 61 GB Drive (16383 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors). Sfdisk can
only see ~30 GB of the Drive, claiming that it has 65531 cylinders of 1008 *
512 bytes. It partitions fine under this scheme and I can format it and
mount it, but I loose 50% of my disk capacity. So my questions are: (1) Is
this a kernel issue, an fdisk issue, or a bios issue? (2) Can I fix it? (3)
If 2=yes, how do I?

Thank you to anyone who can help.

James
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