Thanks for the response. Actually, the problem was that the 2.0.28 kernel
couldn't handle drives larger than 8 gig (as I posted that I suspected in a
followup to my original post). When I installed Suse 6.1, which has a
later kernel, it recognized all 10 gig.
For anyone else who has this problem, the details are in the (I believe
it's called) large-disk howto - near the end.
>Actually, the drive recognizes (what the drive says is) the drive geometry.
>But after reading through the large drive FAQ this morning, I discovered that
>drives over 8 gigabytes cause problems in pre 2.0.34 kernels. There's
>more detail than this, but essentially earlier kernels will not believe the
>drive when it tells the kernel how much space it has; as a result the
>kernel defaults to cylinders*heads*sectors-per-track*512.
>I attempted to change the appropriate function given by thye FAQ to fix
>this and recompile/install the kernel, but it didn't work for some reason.
>So my current plan is to go ahead and install Suse 6.1 and, assuming the
>above explanation pertains to my drive, this should fix the problem.
>If not, I'll probably be back :-)
>>Have you tried specifying the drive geometry in lilo.conf?
>>> I just installed a 10 gigabyte Western Digital IDE hard drive and can only
>>> get Linux to recognize about 8 gigabytes - I'm missing 2 gigabytes. (I
>>> used fdisk to create 3 partitions - 1st 4.5 gig. (4718920 blocks), 2nd 2.5
>>gig
>>> (2621808 blocks), and for the 3rd I specified the remaining cylinders and
>>the
>>> resulting size was only a little under a gig (916272 blocks).
>>> I'm running Linux 2.0.28.
>>> The drive is configured in the CMOS as Type "Auto" and Mode "LBA".
>>> I did a search on deja news and found some discussion on this issue of
>>> drive size smaller than it should be, but the only solution I found
>>posted -
>>> to change LBA to Normal - didn't work.
>>> If it matters, this drive is configured as the secondary slave. The
>>> secondary master is a 5 gig drive, configured the same - auto/LBA.
>>> I have one other drive, a 2 gig drive, as the primary master.
>>> Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to allow Linux to see the
>>> entire 10 gigabytes?
>>> Thanks -
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>>> Jim Cochrane
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