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I'm in the middle of installing Linux (Slackware 2.2) and ran into
problems with fdisk and my 4GB data disk.  My system is as follows:
P-133 32ram
Buslogic 946C PCI SCSI
1 GB Seagate System Disk
4 GB Seagate Barracuda Data Disk

Linux fdisk sees the 1GB drive fine but not the 4GB drive.  Fdisk asks
for heads, sectors, etc.  I thought that Linux would have no problem
with large SCSI drives as long as the SCSI adapter was supported.
What's the deal?

   I'm in the middle of installing Linux (Slackware 2.2) and ran into
   problems with fdisk and my 4GB data disk.  My system is as follows:
   P-133 32ram
   Buslogic 946C PCI SCSI
   1 GB Seagate System Disk
   4 GB Seagate Barracuda Data Disk

   Linux fdisk sees the 1GB drive fine but not the 4GB drive.  Fdisk asks
   for heads, sectors, etc.  I thought that Linux would have no problem
   with large SCSI drives as long as the SCSI adapter was supported.
   What's the deal?

When Linux boots, does it see both SCSI disks - there is a message
about disks, and their drive IDs, in amongst all the kernel startup
info.   If not you have a H/W configuration problem.
        Termination, SCSI ID... (See the HOWTO-scsi)

are you using "fdisk /dev/sdb" ?  You must tell fdisk which device
to attack, or it will default to the first disk it finds.

I had this problem as well.  This is just the beginning of my problems.
Nearly every piece of hardware on my machine rejects linux.  :-(

Here's my hardware:
  850M IDE (>1024cly)
  4GB Seagate  SCSII(booting win95)
  #9 128
  Adaptec2940UW
  6plex 6x cdrom

Biggest problem is that I can't put the IDE in primary master without
conflicting with my booting SCSI disk.  So the IDE drives fail
completely because there is nothing in the primary master slot.  

I just got my 2940 kernel to boot without a problem, but this doesn't
help because the 6xCDrom and the 4GB disk will not mount anyway.
Is there a problem with this CDrom drive as well?  It would be just
my luck....

Once I tackle these problems, I will have to get X running with my video
card.

Any suggestions on fixing the above problems?

: Hi,

: I'm in the middle of installing Linux (Slackware 2.2) and ran into
: problems with fdisk and my 4GB data disk.  My system is as follows:
: P-133 32ram
: Buslogic 946C PCI SCSI
: 1 GB Seagate System Disk
: 4 GB Seagate Barracuda Data Disk

: Linux fdisk sees the 1GB drive fine but not the 4GB drive.  Fdisk asks
: for heads, sectors, etc.  I thought that Linux would have no problem
: with large SCSI drives as long as the SCSI adapter was supported.
: What's the deal?

: I'm in the middle of installing Linux (Slackware 2.2) and ran into
: problems with fdisk and my 4GB data disk.  My system is as follows:
: P-133 32ram
: Buslogic 946C PCI SCSI
: 1 GB Seagate System Disk
: 4 GB Seagate Barracuda Data Disk

: Linux fdisk sees the 1GB drive fine but not the 4GB drive.  Fdisk asks
: for heads, sectors, etc.  I thought that Linux would have no problem
: with large SCSI drives as long as the SCSI adapter was supported.

Well, Linux has no problem with large disks.
The fdisk found in Slackware 2.2 may be a different story.
Get fdisk 2.1.

Last year when I was installing Linux this caused some problems, and all of
the HOWTOs said, simply, "don't use extended translation".  This is
becoming more of an issue now that I have a CD-R and the most useful piece
of software is a DOS application... I've got 1GB of disk that's not doing
anything useful at the moment.

I was going to try FreeBSD, but that won't install into extended DOS
partitions yet, and the setup program scared the hell out of me (I said
"lay out partitions automatically on D:" and it was going to drop the /usr
partition on top of my existing DOS partition instead of the big empty
place that wasn't in use... not to mention that it was threatening to do it
to C: instead... the hell with that, my backups aren't recent enough. :-) ).

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