Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:14:20 -0500 (EST) | From | <> | Subject | Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk |
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This is maybe a stupid question, but are your settings of your hard disk in the BIOS are set to LBA? cause it doesn't seem so from the info you gave.
Hetz
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Khimenko Victor wrote: > > You gave way not enough information to gave you wise answer (what version of > > kernel you are using, what motherboard, what version of hdparm, etc, etc). > > Kernel: 2.2.14pre11. hdparm version 3.6. Motherboard is an Intel SE440BX. > > > Try to do the following: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > > > > Then reboot. This way you'll destroy partition table completely and kernel > > will not try to use it to determine size of disk. > > Already tried that, it doesn't help. That was actually the very first > thing I tried.. > > Wichert. > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ > | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | > | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | >
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