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  I have read that the new kernels have no problems with big IDE drives but I
have the 1.3.8 kernel and still have problems.

  I would like to have my system configured as follows. First Drive is the
maxtor 250 MB drive, fully devoted to LINUX. Second drive, cyls 0 to 1024 DOS,
cyls 1025 up (504 MB to 1.26GB) for LINUX. Problem is, FDISK even under linux
will not see the >504MB area of the disk.

  I saw that there is a command I can give LILO to specify the geometry before
the kernel loads. However, the command didn't seem to specify WHICH drive in my
2 drive system i was giving the geometry of.

  I would greatly appreciate anyones comments or pointers.

Thanks.

This is designed to "work out of the box" the same way you want it to.
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For latest Linux kernels: ftp.cs.helsinki.fi:/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/v1.[23]
For Linux IDE (big/many) help, see:  /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.ide

Quote:>LILO (being a stupid BIOS-dependant 16-bit program) has no choice but to boot
>Linux from the first 504Mb of your big drive. However, your Linux fdisk
>_should_ see the extra space (mine did on my 540Mb drive -- Linux resides from
>about cyls. 500 to 1047). It may warn you about the excessive size of your
>drive, but it should cope. If not, upgrade your /sbin stuff.

Partition 2 has different physical and logical endings:
phys = (0, 15, 63) versus log = (1024, 15, 63)

This is for a partition ending smack on cylinder 1025 in order
to most graphically demonstrate what's going on: physical
cylinder numbers are wrapping around at 1024. (fdisk knows
there ought to be 2466 cylinders and lets me attempt to
configure beyond that, but the consistency check when
I print the table gives the above message, and if I try
to plunge ahead anyway mke2fs freaks out big time.)

I have fdisk version 1.5. I just upgraded to that off of sunsite
after discovering that my old version was 1.4. 1.5 is no different.

If there's something else I need to upgrade, what is it?

My drive is also 1.27GB, a Samsung PLS-31274A.

HELP!

-T

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