[NMLUG] big disks

[havoc at harrisdev.com (Jody Harris)]

Also, some large disks come with a jumper to "down size" the disk for 
older controllers.  Could the disk have the jumper set as the factory 
default?

j

James Hamilton wrote:
> 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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