[Gllug] 11 gig limit

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:31:49PM +0100, Matt Amos wrote:
> > I've got an 80gig IDE drive reporting as 11gig to BIOS/fdisk etc here. I've
> > looked at the large disk howto which just says "there are no problems", and
> > hunted around the manufacturers site which just says "use this windows
> > patch" but I can't find much else. :-/
> > 
> > Any suggestions (Debian/potato)?
> 
> when i got my 46G there was the same problem. iirc, it was a BIOS problem
> and was sorted fine by flashing the latest patch from the motherboard
> manufacturer.
> 
> cya,
> 
> matt

The Large Disk HOWTO details all the issues with disk limits:
	http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html
including the 65535 cylinder problem (which can cause large disks to 
appear smaller).


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