Re: [PLUG] linux hard drive troubles

[Jesse Huestis <jhuestis@comcast.net>]

Hi

Jeff has some very good advice.

Can you see the drive correctly in the systems BIOS?

Jeff,

I am wondering, as I have had the same problem with some older machines 
and the ATA 133 drives, do the other *FDISK programs see the drive 
correctly even if teh BIOS does not?

Jesse

Michael Lazin wrote:

> 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?
>
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