[nylug-talk] 30 GB HD on P 133MHz

[Oktay Altunergil]

Although I thought Linux should have no problem detecting and using it, I
recommend highly against using EZ-BIOS. It will mess up your hard disk at
some point or another. Instead I would recommend upgrading your BIOS, if
it's flashable.

Oktay

----- Original Message -----
From: "jose sanchez" <j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>; <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:50 AM
Subject: [nylug-talk] 30 GB HD on P 133MHz

> Ok. Here I go again with my problems. I need help on
> this one.
>
> * BIOS: AMI from August 1996.
>
> I bought a 30G DiamondMax Maxtor HD. It came with an
> utility disk that installs EZ-BIOS.
>
> Ok... I ran the utility disk and installed EZ-BIOS.
> Now, I am trying to install RH 6.2. When the
> installation starts or when the kernel starts to
> extract itself (when is detecting the HD, Mem, etc..)
> it finds the HD and it says something similar to: hda
> maxtor 30708MB. This means it found or knows that the
> box has a "big" HD, right?
>
> When I get to make the partitions with either ddruid
> or fdisk it's only detecting 8.4GB. How can I get
> Linux to detect the whole 30G on this HD.
>
> Note:
> I also booted with a Win98 boot disk and ran fdisk and
> tried making a FAT partition and it only detects 2.4G.
> I know FAT has some limitations... I also tried
> partitioning the drive with Partition Magic; I get an
> error saying "unable to initialize engine" and crashes
> after that. I'll find more info about this error on
> their website.
>
> Please HELP! And thanks in advance for your support.
>
>
>
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