[NTLUG:Discuss] Hard Disk Size

[Juliet Blosser]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:07:23PM -0800, vinod choyi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I bought a new hard disk(13 Gb) recently and wanted to
> install SuSE/Caldera. When I tried to partition the
> hard disk to my surprise it just shows 7 Gb. Could the
> problem be with my bios. And if so, how could I solve
> the problem because the customer service at maxtor
> told me that they did know how I could do it on Linux,
> but they had solutions for Win 95/98.. 
> I have never installed Linux before.
> 
> regards and thanks
> 
> vinod
> 
Can you give us the drive geometry for your new drive?
This would include cylinders, heads, sectors.  Also, are
you able to see how the drive is being recognized in your
BIOS?  Depending on how old your machine is, you may have
to tell your bios to view the geometry as a large drive or
how ever your bios names such an option.  Also, depending
on the utility you are using (possibly Disk Druid?) you
may not be allowed to partition more than 7Gb in one 
partition, and your utility may show you something that
would make you think it was only recognizing 7Gb.

Also, what fix did Maxtor's customer service give you?
We may be able to help you apply it to your Linux 
installation depending on what it is.