[ltp] 600E Large Disk Config

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Force the kernel to recognize the geometry by appending "hda=1299,240,63" at the
lilo prompt.  (Something like "linux hda=1299,240,63".)

                    -Chris

Chris Weyl
Notes Performance Capacity Planning and Management
IBM Global Services

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Nick Bower <nick.bower@ssec.wisc.edu> on 10/26/99 12:28:27 PM

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Accepted delivery of a 600E machine last night with the 10GB HDD.  I
installed RH6.1, but later realized I'd missed that DiskDruid didn't
recognize more than 1023 cylinders (~> 7.5GB) during the installation.
RH 6.1 no longer seems to give you the choice of using fdisk anymore
either.  Somehow I thought these problems were fixed with ATA & LBA.

So trying to resintall, I can't force RH's DiskDruid to use more than
7.5GB.  Is there anyway to overcome this and use all my disk?  I've
checked some of the archives and Large HDD HowTo, but am still at a loss
for a solution without using Parition Manager (partly also because I no
longer have a windows partition).

BTW - I tried Mandrake's Diskdrake, but that only recognizes 7552 MB
(1023/240/63).

cheers, nick.

fdisk:

Device Name     Boot    Start   End     Blocks          Id      System
/dev/hda1       (boot)  1       3       22648           83      Linux
/dev/hda2               4       1023    7711200         5       Extended
/dev/hda5               4       38      264568+         82      Linux
Swap
/dev/hda6               39      1023    7446568+        83      Linux
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