I think you may be failing to see the forest for the trees. I've had drives (especially the 100 GB Maxtors) that *some* programs refused to see, whereas others saw the whole thing. I suggest firing up "cfdisk": a somewhat more complex, substantially more powerful program than the stock "fdisk", and see if it doesn't see your whole drive. Also, what does your system report when it identifies the drive during boot? Check "dmesg" to see (assuming it hasn't scrolled). That will most likely be how the *kernel* sees it -- it's then up to userland utils to make sure that they put the correct partitions, etc., in place. (For example, here's a line from mine: hdb: 195711264 sectors (100204 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=12182/255/63...) That had been there the whole time, so I knew the kernel knew what was up, but fdisk *refused* to see it... though cfdisk worked quite nicely.
HTH... -Ken On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 22:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I'm looking for some help in getting Linux to recognize the 10GB HD on > my Dell Latitude C600 laptop. Currently, it's reporting (parted) 8.4GB, > because lilo is apparently using C:H:S instead of LBA32 addressing. I've > got LBA32 in the lilo.conf file. I've run lilo from both my emergency > backup partition and floppy, same result. As a result, the upper 1.6GB is > not > addressable/usable. Anyone have ideas as to how to get it to work (and I > did check linux-laptops.net, all the C600 reports there just say "use > LBA32 mode," without details on how to get it into that)? > > Some info: > Model: Dell Latitude C600 > BIOS: A19 > CPU: Pentium III/600MHz > Memory: 128MB > HD: IDE, unknown manufacturer (internal with system) > Distro: Red Hat 7.1/Ximian updates > Kernel (multiple, same problem with all): 2.2.18, 2..2.18 w/Win4Lin > updates, 2.2.18 w/Win4Lin & Devfs, 2.4.17, 2.4.2, 2.4.7 w/VMWare, 2.4.4 > Lilo: 21.4.4-13 (Red Hat/Ximian RPM) > parted: 1.4.7-2 (Red Hat/Ximian RPM) > Devfsd: 2.4.3-12 (Red Hat/Ximian RPM) > > Again, any suggestions/help appreciated. > > jeff > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > thought for the day: FORTUNE'S RULES TO LIVE BY: #2 > Never goose a wolverine. > > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
