On this machine the drive comes up right away as having 32MB. It's an old motherboard, 1995 or so and even after I specified in the BIOS the number of heads and cylinders there is another option in the BIOS that says Max Size: 8GB So when I went and did an fdisk/mkfs, the size of the drive is 32GB. Everything works fine, I just want my 10 extra gigs. So I should be able to get around the BIOS issue in linux?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:44:20AM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > Currently my BIOS only allows me to see 32GB of my harddrive. > [...] > > is there an easy way to make linux recognize the full size of the drive > > without having to format the harddrive or do anything that will result > > in a loss of data? > > Linux should be able to use the full size of that hard drive > even on machines with BIOSes that can't because Linux doesn't use > the BIOS to access hard drives. The only time it uses the BIOS is > right at the beginning to detect the capacity, which it then asks > the drive about and believes the drive. > > The important thing is some BIOSes crash when a drive that is > "too large" is auto-detected. So on some BIOSes you need to tell it > that there is no drive attached, or manually tell it the size is > something much smaller than it really is. > > - So have you tried booting Linux on that machine? > - Does the BIOS hang when you try to detect the drive size, or just > mis-report the drive size? > > TTFN, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech