Bug 1077

Summary:	fdisk does not properly recognize 16G hard drives
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	drector
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	aleksey, pickens
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Hardware:	i386
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Description drector 1999-02-08 18:28:17 UTC

During a routine installation on a P-Pro machine, fdisk
only sees 8G of a 16G ide drive.

The Bios properly recognizes the disk, and the kernel
reports 16G disk size for hda, but fdisk only sees 8G of the
disk.

Comment 1 drector 1999-02-08 19:01:59 UTC

Using the advanced menu, and 'set cylinders' I manually set the number
of cylinders to 2048 rather than the 1024 which was detected. fdisk
now complains about errors in the cylinder boundries. Is this a
solution?

Comment 2 David Lawrence 1999-02-10 20:01:59 UTC

This bug has been previously reported. We are working on finding a
solution. It is pretty common with drives larger than 8 gigs and when
a solution is implemented it should fix the same problem wit most
sizes above 8 gigs.

Comment 3 pickens 1999-04-26 16:43:59 UTC

Why is this bug discarded? Until this is fixed, I cannot install
Linux in a partition at the end of my 20GB drive.