Widgeteye <Widgeteye@widgets.com> wrote:


> I just bought a new 300 gig HD for my Slack computer, I noticed when
> reading th docs that came with it that Windows has a 137 gig Barrier
> that has to be overcome with software that comes with the drive.

> Does Linux have any such barrier to overcome? If so what's the procedure?

> Thanks

In my case yes.
Tried to install a 160GB HD under 10.2 Slackware with the
2.4.31 Kernel. Fdisk only recognizes 137 GB.
With the 2.6 Kernel included in Slack 10.2 fdisk recognizes
the full 160GB. Partitioning and mkfs works.

BUT: A filesystemcheck told me much Buffer-I/O-Error.
Also copying ans reading date are not possible.
I could reproduce this with another brand new HD.
Maybe, it's a problem with the bios of the motherboard.
It's updatet to the newest version. But in some cases
the 137GB-Barrier still exist.

Just my 2 cent.

Peter


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