[NTLUG:Discuss] Hard Disk Size

[Koren, Peter A.]

All I had to do with a large hard drive was select
linear block addressing (LBA) in the BIOS. Whether
or not this will work for you depends upon the age of
your BIOS. Also note the remapping of the C:H:S
parameters (Cylinders:Heads:Sectors) caused by choosing
LBA. If your BIOS autodetects the drives it should
report the remapped C:H:S values.

Your / partition must be completely contained in
the first 1024 cylinders. Actually, if you have a separate
/boot partition, just that partition must be in the first
1024 cylinders.

Regards,

Peter Koren


-----Original Message-----
From: vinod choyi [mailto:vinod_choyi at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 3:07 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Hard Disk Size


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

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