From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263438AbTJLJWX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:22:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263440AbTJLJWX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:22:23 -0400 Received: from 202-47-55-78.adsl.gil.com.au ([202.47.55.78]:28033 "HELO longlandclan.hopto.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263438AbTJLJWV (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:22:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3F891CC9.8020507@longlandclan.hopto.org> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:09 +1000 From: Stuart Longland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Denebeim CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with Maxtor 120 GB drive References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org | | Brisbane Mesh Node: 719 http://stuartl.cjb.net/ | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | | Griffith Student No: Course: Bachelor/IT (Nathan) | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/iRzMIGJk7gLSDPcRAkqfAJ0UAV5nVhdTbLZ5FqSOsv8sUmT7MwCfT/OJ HhGjZzU6WiXOAAfMAyvT26g= =p0ya -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----