On 18-Dec-98 Steve Hsieh wrote: >> I just brought 17.2G ide harddrive, and when I try to use cfdisk to >> partition >> it, it only sees 8G. FWIW, I updated cfdisk to ones in frozen. Bios and >> Linux >> bootup sees it as 17.2G, so I don't know why cfdisk will not.:( > > How about using fdisk instead? In the worse case, you can manually > specify the cylinders, heads, and sectors in fdisk.
Tried it using cfdisk -c 16383 -h 16 -s 63 /dev/hdb But it still only shows 8G. Is there anything else that I can change? Thanks, David