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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]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@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/150 - Release Date: 10/27/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/150 - Release Date: 10/27/2005
