Should be fine. I have had no issues with >138 GB with Linux or with Windows XP (as long as you are installed Slipstreamed SP1).
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:47:17 -0400, Tom Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Seagate 160 GB IDE disk. I did some poking around on the Web, and I > saw a lot of discussion over people who could only access the first 138 GB of > a 160 GB disk. > > The IDE disk comes with a CD for setting up the disk under Windows and on a > Mac. From an initial look, I think that the CD essentiall has user manuals > and a copy of "DiscWizard" which I'm guessing they ship to help partition the > disk...not sure though. > > It looks like the CD might be able to bootstrap itself into some sort of > bootable DOS/Windows image on the CD, but that fails on my system because I > have a SCSI CD-ROM drive. I have a spare IDE CD-ROM, but this is starting to > be silly. I'm not sure what that CD could have on it that I can't already do > with fdisk. > > If I run fdisk and I see the following. It looks like fdisk is seeing the > whole disk. Does anyone think that I'll get into trouble if I partition the > disk with fdisk and just go with that? > > Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF > disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, > until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content > won't be recoverable. > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19457. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > Command (m for help): q > > ---Tom > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
