[PLUG] Q: linux and big hard drive

[Jeff Abrahamson <abrahj01@molbio.sbphrd.com>]

I got this nifty 40 Gb hard drive (7200 rpm, UDMA/66, $160,
Staples). I'm not planning on booting off of it: this is a second
disk. So I believe the BIOS don't matter, because linux doesn't use
the BIOS except to find /boot/vmlinuz.

So I run /sbin/fdisk and I'm told the following:

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 13870 cylinders 
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1     13870   6990448+  83  Linux

Now the drive (a Maxtor DiamondMax) has 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, and
63 sectors. So already something is wrong. Moreover, /sbin/cfdisk says
this is a 7 Gb drive, not a 40 Gb drive.

So something is wrong.

This is a machine I bought new in November 1998. It's a Gigabyte
motherboard, although I don't have the version number handy. Looks
like I'm running a 2.2.5 kernel.

Any suggestions?

-- 
 Jeff Abrahamson
 610/270-4845
 abrahj01@molbio.sbphrd.com


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