At 7:12 PM +0100 10/28/05, Mirco Scaramucci wrote: >hello guys, >I just purchased a brand new maxtor 160Gb harddrive where I installed >fedora core 4 and the drive was fully recognized by anaconda during >installation as a 160Gb. >Installation went all ok but when I first logged in to my account and >checked the available space on disk i noticed that strangely the space >available was only 135Gb meaning that approx 30Gb were not counted in. >I then upgraded to kernel 2.6.13.1-1532.FC4 hoping to regain the missing >space but still no sign of it. >I therefore installed QTPArted and checked what the situation was and >funny enough the LVM on qtparted is recognized as 160Gb. >I also have a 40Gb external HD connected via USB which is fully >recognized. > >What has happened to the remaining 30GB on the MAxtor HD? I venture to guess that you are having a 128 MB problem with your ATA disk controller. Others will know more about it. Newer controllers "double-pump" the disk address registers to get past the limit. I don't know if older controllers can do that at all; I do know that they can't on boot. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
