Re: KERNEL 2.6.3 and MAXTOR 160 GB

[Andries Brouwer]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 03:57:11PM +0100, Carlo Orecchia wrote:

> I'm running redhat 9 on an XP 1800 and a ASUS A7A266. I recently buy a new 
> HD a maxtor Diamond Plus 160 with 8 mega cache. The fact is that the kernel that comes 
> with REDHAT (2.4.20-8) shows the entire size of the disk (163.7 gb) but 
> the kernel 2.6.1 or 2.6.3 does not. It only shows 137 gb. I'm getting 
> crazy trying to understand why this is happening! Please let 
> me know if theres a patch to fix this. I really  found amazing the 2.6 
> kernel and i don't want to come back to use the 2.4!
> What can i do? 

You can tell us the boot messages that concern your disk.
You can tell us the CONFIG options that concern IDE.
For example, did you set CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE ?

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