[Gllug] Debian installer and Disks > 137GB

[Xander D Harkness]

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?

Have you tried fdisk to see if that interprets the drives differently.  
I have some 250+G drives quite happily working with 2.4 :-)

Kind regards
Xander


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