Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk

Daniel J Blueman (kernel@mail.intercomp-sys.com)
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:14:20 -0500 (EST)


This is maybe a stupid question, but are your settings of your hard disk
in the BIOS are set to LBA? cause it doesn't seem so from the info you
gave.

Hetz

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Khimenko Victor wrote:
> > You gave way not enough information to gave you wise answer (what version of
> > kernel you are using, what motherboard, what version of hdparm, etc, etc).
>
> Kernel: 2.2.14pre11. hdparm version 3.6. Motherboard is an Intel SE440BX.
>
> > Try to do the following:
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> >
> > Then reboot. This way you'll destroy partition table completely and kernel
> > will not try to use it to determine size of disk.
>
> Already tried that, it doesn't help. That was actually the very first
> thing I tried..
>
> Wichert.
>
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