RE: Max Drive size?

[Tim Grossner <tg@wintermute.cityscape.net>]

Maybe im nitpicking or maybe you have it wrong, but it should be "fdisk
/dev/hdc" not "fdisk /dev/hdc1"

hdc is the drive while hdc1 is the drives first partition. You cant fdisk
a partition. :-)




Tim Grossner, Systems Engineer
CityScape Communications
'The Total Technology Solution Provider'
phone 217.535.1010


On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Burke, Jason wrote:

> 
> Hi Charles,
> 
> try using /dev/hdb1, and see if that helps. The only size limitation
> that I know of
> is that the kernel image needs to sit below 1023 cylinders if your going
> to use
> lilo instead of a boot disk.
> 
> Jason Burke
> Network Engineer
> Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.
> www.lrs.com
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	charles@lunargraphics.net [SMTP:charles@lunargraphics.net]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, January 05, 1999 1:30 PM
> > To:	Linux Users Club of IL
> > Subject:	Max Drive size?
> > 
> > 
> > I am running RH5.1, and trying to install a new EIDE Hard Drive which
> > is
> > 8gig. Attempting to run 
> > 
> > fdisk /dev/hdc1
> > 
> > gives me 
> > 
> > Unable to read /dev/hdc1
> > 
> > The drive *is* the master on the 2nd IDE controller.
> > Is there a limit to the hard drive size linux can handle?
> > 
> > cjm
> > 
> > 
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