Harddisks bigger than 137GB in Linux

From: Roger Bendheim (roger_at_it-arkitekten.no)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:40:41 +0200

Hello.

I have installed Fedora 9.0 with kernel 2.4.24, but have problems seeing
more than 137GB of my WD2000BJ disk. I know this is not a hardware or BIOS
problem, because I am able to see the whole disk in BIOS and in Windows 2000
SP4.

Please answer if you know how to solve this problem.

Kind regards
Roger

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