[NMLUG] big disks

[havoc at harrisdev.com (Jody Harris)]

I have a 160G drive... (Maxtor?)  df -h gives me 149G.

I'm surprised that you're only seeing 137G.

j

Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> I just got a 250G Western Digital EIDE hard drive.
> Problem is that fdisk only sees like 137G.
> 
> I looked at the insert, and they provide a little Windows program
> to prepare the disk for 250G formatting.
> 
> What can I do from Debian?
> How can I tell if my bios can even handle such a disk?
> 
>      aaron
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