Re: Hard Drives and Kernal Source

["Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson gwi net>]

Krikket wrote:

> Has anyone else had problems getting Fedora to recognize their hard drives
> at full capacity?  I have a 20 gig drive that the BIOS recognises as 20
> gig.  I had it working at 20 gig under Windows and SuSE linux, but Fedora
> only recognizes it as a 2 gig drive.  Suggestions?
>  
How are you checking the disk size under Linux?
If as root you enter this command what do you get?

dmesg|grep sectors

Or this (if your disk is the first ide drive)?

fdisk -lu /dev/hda

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