Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 13529
Disk druid only recognizes 8 out of 24gig disk
Last modified: 2007-03-26 23:32:44 EDT
Disk druid sees only 8gigs of 24gig disk, but plain fdisk sees all of it (so working around is easy) Copy-paste from user: -------- During installation I chose the workstation (KDE) option and then I came to the partition screen which at first could not access /dev/hdb at all (it complained about a missing partition table); after I formatted the disk under NT and tried to repartition it during the Linux installation, it only recognized it as a 7.8GB disk. --------- Disk details: /dev/hdb: Model=IBM-DJNA-352500, FwRev=J51OA30K, SerialNo=GW0GWFJ7886 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/15/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=1966kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=2 CurCHS=16383/15/63, CurSects=1011810540, LBA=yes, LBAsects=49981680 tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4
Does this problem happen with 6.2?
6.2 recognizes the disk ok with disk druid too. It's possible that the case with 6.1 had to do with the disk being partitioned+formatted under NT first, but can't really check because the user doesn't want to trash his disk again now that he got it properly working :) Anyway this is really low priority for me since we could work around it easily.
User reports problem is corrected in 6.2.