Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2002 20:14:32 -0700 | | From | Benjamin S Carrell <> | | Subject | Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) |
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I would think that you lose that space to formatting (would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?), but I stand open for correction.
-Ben Carrell ben@xmission.com
Andre Hedrick wrote:
>another update request -- > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:16:12 -0800 >From: ablew@internetcds.com >To: andre@linux-ide.org >Subject: Bigggg Maxtor drives > >Hi there. As I understand it you're the linux IDE guy, >so if you don't mind answering a question for me, I'd >appriciate it. > >I recently bought a Maxtor 4G160J8. This hard drive is >Maxtor's biggest harddrive as of yet, coming in at >160GB. Linux sees this drive as a mere 134 or so gigs >as shown by the below: > >hde: Maxtor 4G160J8, ATA DISK drive >hde: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, >CHS=266305/16/63, UDMA(33) hde: hde1 > >Do I need to pass the kernel any arguments though grub >to see the full size, or is this just a kernel level >limitation? > >Any help is appriciated. > >Thanks, >-Aaron > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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