Re: [SLUG] Hard Drive 137 of 250G showing

From: xcalibre (xcalibre@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2007 - 19:49:03 EST


Bios Limit solution is a Hard Drive Controller Card... Being a P1 if it went up to 137 you were lucky most would crap out around 60 to 80 gig...

-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
>Sent: Dec 30, 2007 5:06 PM
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: [SLUG] Hard Drive 137 of 250G showing
>
>Folks:
>
>I just installed a 250G hard drive in an old Pentium 1 box. When running
>fdisk, it only saw 137G of the 250G. Is this a BIOS limitation or an
>fdisk/Linux limitation? Is there any way (with this hardware) around it?
>
>Paul
>
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>Paul M. Foster
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