Re: 200gb showing as 120gb

From: Carsten Stiborg (carsten_at_stiborg.dk)
Date: 02/16/05


Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:24:39 +0100

Galldrian wrote:
> I have a fresh install of Debian 3.0 running the 2.4 kernel.
>
> They hdb drive does show up as 200gb in the bios.
>
> But when running cfdisk the drive only shows up as 137436.21mb
>
> Any ideas how to get it to show 200gb?

I've had the same problem too. I solved it by upgrading my kernel
to version 2.4.26 from version 2.4.18, I can't remember the exact
kernel version in which it starts to work, you'll have to read
the ChangeLog for that.

-CS



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