770Z using the full 14G drive

[David Blackman]

I have installed RedHat linux 6.0 but was unable to use the full 14G 
of the drive.  It would only allow me to use about 8G and the rest 
was unavailable.  I talked with redhat tech support and they 
suggested that I should try at the boot prompt linux 
hda=cyls,hds,sectors and said that this should work.  I had come 
up with the cyls=1826, heads=240, and the sectors=63, and used 
the command "linux hda=1826,240,63" at the linux boot prompt.  I 
partitioned the drive and it seemed to partition the drive ok, showing 
that I had 14G of space.  but after writting out the partitions the 
install could not find any partitions to install linux on.  I rebooted 
the machine and then was not able to remove the partitions with 
dos or with a linux boot diskette.  I found a utility delpart.exe that 
would delete the partitions.  

I talked to IBM storage about the problem and they said that using 
disk manager had worked for a different model drive and pointed me 
to the web page that told how to do it.  This did not work for my 
laptop either.  

Is there a solution to this problem?


David Blackman
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