Re: [newbie] 45G HS only formats to 7.7 G?
El Sbado 27 Enero 2001 12:27, Goldenpi escribi: My 20gig is only showing up as 8gig. I know that is the bios. Its some weird costom-made chip by hewlett-packard and my motherboard wont take an upgrade. So I need a new motherboard. Until then, linux is dead. The drive is currently storeing some cd images and files of mine under windows in my other machine. I have a 20 GB HD that in Windows (because of my old BIOS) is recognized as a 8 GB one, but Linux recognizes it as the 20 GB it is and works without problems. Maybe I don't have any problems because it is my 2nd. HD, and my boot partition is on the first disk (my root and other stuff is on the 2nd. one). It seems that the Linux boot loader uses the BIOS in the booting process, but after that Linux just ignores the BIOS and uses its own FS routines. -- John David Molina
[newbie] 45G HS only formats to 7.7 G?
[linatic@intrude linatic]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 235M 152M 72M 68% / /dev/hda8 8.5G 6.9G 1.2G 86% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 892M 1.9G 32% /usr /dev/hda7 6.8G 655M 5.9G 10% /var /dev/hdd1 7.7G 20k 7.3G 0% /mnt/backup [linatic@intrude linatic]$ Any of you guys have any similar experiences? U fdisk a new drive, then U format it ext2 and your 45G drive only shows up ast 7gigs? Any idea where I should look? I followed the Administrator's guide. which said to just mke2fs -cv /dev/hdd1 so I need to mess with inodes and block sizes? On the original HD: (has more partitions) blocks = 19,687,657 on the 8.5 part /dev/hda2 start 51 end 2501 On the new HD: blocks = 8,241,344 on the 7.7 gig part /dev/hdd1 start 1 end 16352 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundryphys=(1,254,63) should be (1,15,63) I think this is a CHS issue. Any ideas on where I would go... too bad my IBM drives don't have a"How to install in Linux, eh?"
Re: [newbie] 45G HS only formats to 7.7 G?
Now this is a bit strange but I just had a similar problem with a 20 gig WD hd. (20 gig only showing up as 7.0gig after a windows2000 ntfs format) and when I went to format it back to fat32 it showed up as 7.0 gig also. I would change it in the bios only to reboot and have it go right back. (it detected in the bios as the correct size until I saved and exited [yes I saved =) ]) I ended up having to use the WD utility to write 0's to the drive and then auto detect in the bios. I never did get this drive to work with windows2000. I don't know if it is the same thing here but I used partition magic to format to ntfs and totally messed the drive when I tried to format under windows2000! [linatic@intrude linatic]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 235M 152M 72M 68% / /dev/hda8 8.5G 6.9G 1.2G 86% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 892M 1.9G 32% /usr /dev/hda7 6.8G 655M 5.9G 10% /var /dev/hdd1 7.7G 20k 7.3G 0% /mnt/backup [linatic@intrude linatic]$ Any of you guys have any similar experiences? U fdisk a new drive, then U format it ext2 and your 45G drive only shows up ast 7gigs? Any idea where I should look? I followed the Administrator's guide. which said to just mke2fs -cv /dev/hdd1 so I need to mess with inodes and block sizes? On the original HD: (has more partitions) blocks = 19,687,657 on the 8.5 part /dev/hda2 start 51 end 2501 On the new HD: blocks = 8,241,344 on the 7.7 gig part /dev/hdd1 start 1 end 16352 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundryphys=(1,254,63) should be (1,15,63) I think this is a CHS issue. Any ideas on where I would go... too bad my IBM drives don't have a"How to install in Linux, eh?"
Re: [newbie] 45G HS only formats to 7.7 G?
is your bios/cmos able to take a 45 gb hdd if answer = yes then win2000 needs a patch to be able to use the 45 gb hdd but i expected it to be in there after sp3 in win nt 4.0 stephen At 04:35 PM 27/01/2001 Saturday, you wrote: Now this is a bit strange but I just had a similar problem with a 20 gig WD hd. (20 gig only showing up as 7.0gig after a windows2000 ntfs format) and when I went to format it back to fat32 it showed up as 7.0 gig also. I would change it in the bios only to reboot and have it go right back. (it detected in the bios as the correct size until I saved and exited [yes I saved =) ]) I ended up having to use the WD utility to write 0's to the drive and then auto detect in the bios. I never did get this drive to work with windows2000. I don't know if it is the same thing here but I used partition magic to format to ntfs and totally messed the drive when I tried to format under windows2000! [linatic@intrude linatic]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 235M 152M 72M 68% / /dev/hda8 8.5G 6.9G 1.2G 86% /home /dev/hda6 2.9G 892M 1.9G 32% /usr /dev/hda7 6.8G 655M 5.9G 10% /var /dev/hdd1 7.7G 20k 7.3G 0% /mnt/backup [linatic@intrude linatic]$ Any of you guys have any similar experiences? U fdisk a new drive, then U format it ext2 and your 45G drive only shows up ast 7gigs? Any idea where I should look? I followed the Administrator's guide. which said to just mke2fs -cv /dev/hdd1 so I need to mess with inodes and block sizes? On the original HD: (has more partitions) blocks = 19,687,657 on the 8.5 part /dev/hda2 start 51 end 2501 On the new HD: blocks = 8,241,344 on the 7.7 gig part /dev/hdd1 start 1 end 16352 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundryphys=(1,254,63) should be (1,15,63) I think this is a CHS issue. Any ideas on where I would go... too bad my IBM drives don't have a"How to install in Linux, eh?" --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.228 / Virus Database: 109 - Release Date: 17/01/2001
