On 2005-12-01, Peter Herttrich <jk11@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 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
>
>


Well I finally got my 300G hardrive installed and had mo problem
whatsoever with linux recognizing all 300G of the drive.

I am using kernel version 2.4.26. I don't understand what the
problem was with yours. But I did nothing except have the BIOS
recognise it and boot.

I want to add that it was extremely easy to move Slack to the new
drive also. I love the way you can just copy the entire OS and
apps over and it runs without a hiccup.

All I had to do was 'cp -a * /newdrive' and I was done except for setting up
fstab and lilo,conf. What a pleasure it is working with Linux.

Widgeteye






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