Fedora 4 maxtor 160Gb 30 gb missing;

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Um.. from my experience, make sure that your
motherboard supports drives larger than 132GB.
You can google this information and it is all
over the place.

As I understand it your (older) motherboard with the
current IDE chipset may not support drives beyond the
132GB barrier.  I have tried to purchase a hardware
drive card that supports drives beyond the the 132GB
fixed barrier and was not successful because the cards
did not support booting off drives attached to these
cards, so I gave up.  The only thing I could do was
to partition the 200GB hard disk into smaller chunks
but in keeping under the 132GB barrier so I ended up
losing the rest(68GB) because any attempts to go beyond
this 132GB boundary will result loss of data including
the partition information.

You have some choices:
1) Get a drive smaller than 132GB
2) Get a HD card that supports drives beyond
   this barrier.  EIDE or SATA(?) cards.  Be
   aware that some cards do not support booting
   off these cards as your IDE take precedence.
   I tried this 4 times and returned the cards
   4 times and gave up.
3) Upgrade the motherboard

There may be other options, but I am not aware of it.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:18 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Fedora 4 maxtor 160Gb 30 gb missing;


On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:00, Bill Rees wrote:
> I've had the same problem and discovered that fdisk will only make a max 
> partition size of around 130GB. The only way around it I've found is to 
> format the disk during a graphical install. I've heard rumors that a 
> 'fixed' fdisk exists but don't know. Also some other partitioning tool 
> may do what you want.

Ummm....:

# fdisk -l
 
Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        1415    11261565   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1416        2817    11261565   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            2818       30401   221568480    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2818       30401   221568448+  8e  Linux LVM
 
Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1       30401   244196001   fd  Linux raid
autodetect
 

I think hda was done by an FC3 install but hdc was a normal fdisk
under either FC1 or FC3.  There may be some bios limits on older
machines involved.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com


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