200 GB Maxtor drive (48bit LBA) ?

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Mon May 31 15:30:18 UTC 2004


Paul Reilly wrote:

>I'm trying to install Fedora Core 2 on a system with a Maxtor
>200 GB drive. The BIOS detects the 200 GB capacity of the drive,
>but the Fedora Core 2 kernel doesn't. This is odd, since RH9 does.
>It appears that 48bit LBA is not enabled in the kernel on the FC2
>disks. Can anyone confirm this? Whats the best way to workaround it?
>
>Thanks
>Paul
>
It installed fine on my machine which has two 160GB drives.





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