| Jeff Abrahamson on 28 Dec 2003 10:41:02 -0500 |
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:42:54AM -0500, Michael Lazin wrote:
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> I got a new ultra ATA 133 40 gig hard drive for Christmas and I tried
> putting it in a pentium II machine running redhat 9. I used fdisk to
> create a partition for it and makefs to create a filesystem but when I
> did df -h /dev/hdb it said I only had about 3 gigs on the drive. Do I
> need a controller card to use this hard drive on this system? If so,
> can anyone recommend an inexpensive controller card for this drive that
> will work with linux?
You have a controller card if you can interact with it at all.
fdisk is pretty low level, you might try cfdisk instead. From the
fdisk(8) man page:
BUGS
There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and
strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed,
cfdisk is a beautiful program that has strict requirements on the par-
tition tables it accepts, and produces high quality partition tables.
Use it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy things -
usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage
is that it has some support for BSD disk labels and other non-DOS par-
tition tables. Avoid it if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only - the
user interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and more
powerful than both fdisk and cfdisk. Moreover, it can be used nonin-
teractively.)
If you have no data on the drive yet, repartitioning with cfdisk is
the fastest and easiest way to at least ensure that it's not a goofy
partitioning error.
If it still doesn't work, I'm not sure. The old BIOS problems about
seeing larger disks shouldn't affect anything but booting. Maybe send
us a printout of the partition table and the output of df -h and df -P
(with no disk arguments).
BTW, did you check that there's no other /dev/hdb*?
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Jeff
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