Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:14:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:14:48 -0500 Received: from mgr1.xmission.com ([198.60.22.201]:51208 "EHLO mgr1.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 22:14:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3C3D0718.2060602@xmission.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 20:14:32 -0700 From: Benjamin S Carrell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Hedrick CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I would think that you lose that space to formatting (would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?), but I stand open for correction. -Ben Carrell ben@xmission.com Andre Hedrick wrote: >another update request -- > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:16:12 -0800 >From: ablew@internetcds.com >To: andre@linux-ide.org >Subject: Bigggg Maxtor drives > >Hi there. As I understand it you're the linux IDE guy, >so if you don't mind answering a question for me, I'd >appriciate it. > >I recently bought a Maxtor 4G160J8. This hard drive is >Maxtor's biggest harddrive as of yet, coming in at >160GB. Linux sees this drive as a mere 134 or so gigs >as shown by the below: > >hde: Maxtor 4G160J8, ATA DISK drive >hde: 268435455 sectors (137439 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, >CHS=266305/16/63, UDMA(33) hde: hde1 > >Do I need to pass the kernel any arguments though grub >to see the full size, or is this just a kernel level >limitation? > >Any help is appriciated. > >Thanks, >-Aaron > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/