From: Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org>
To: Jay Denebeim <denebeim@deepthot.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with Maxtor 120 GB drive
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F891CC9.8020507@longlandclan.hopto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnbohfu7.1mb.denebeim@hotblack.deepthot.org>
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Jay Denebeim wrote:
> I just purchased a Maxtor 120GB MXTL01P120 hard drive and when I tried
> to install it with Redhat it wrote over the partition table describing
> it as only 8GB. I tried doing linux rescue and lilo complained that
> the physical and logical disk sizes did not match (logical was the
> correct size, physical was the 8GB).
I'm no guru here, but as far as I know, 8GB will be about all you'll see
without using logical block addressing (LBA). Using the lba32 option in
your lilo.conf might help.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-12 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-12 2:43 Jay Denebeim
2003-10-12 9:20 ` Stuart Longland [this message]
2003-10-13 13:23 ` Jay Denebeim
2003-10-15 3:50 ` Jay Denebeim
2003-10-18 17:28 ` Jay Denebeim
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