[NMLUG] big disks

[jamesh at swcp.com (James Hamilton)]

I don't think the bios is involved, doesn't linux operate the controller itself
and ignore the bios completely?  I wonder if you've got an old controller or
there's some other problem with the disk.

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:09:39AM -0600, Jody Harris wrote:
> 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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