[Gllug] Debian installer and Disks > 137GB

[Christopher Hunter]

On Friday 17 Oct 2003 6:16 pm, Darren Beale wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm putting together a machine with 2 x 200GB IDE drives and cfdisk is
> only reporting that the machine has two 137GB disks, searching around I
> see that this might be some sort of* hardware limitation although I'm
> not sure.
>
> I've made sure that the BIOS on the MoBo (Dell Poweredge 350 server) is
> up to date and I've also tried opening a separate console window and
> using fdisk to partition the disk instead, with the same issues. I'm not
> sure if I should be looking to get a kernel patch, a newer mobo or what.
> I've tried all of the install kernels, with bf24 being my default, with
> the same results.
>
> On the maxtor site
> (http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm) there is a
> util that enables me to partition up to the end of the disk but when I
> reboot and try to install debian again, cfdisk barfs and the only option
> I have is to clear the partition table and start again.
>
> The only How-to I can find is the large disk howto which is way out of
> date.
>
> Can anyone give me some further pointers?

I had a similar problem some while ago, and gave up.  I partitioned each 180 
Gb drive as a pair of 90 Gb.  Problem went away, unsolved!

Chris

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