Re: partition 160g harddrive. fdisk fails.

[Bo Peng <bpeng stat rice edu>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:19:22AM -0500, Fluke wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bo Peng wrote:

> > When I installed my redhat 9 system, disk druid recognized my 160G 
> > harddrive and made partition correctly. I am adding another harddrive 
> > and trying to repartition (actually LVMing) the 160G one. However, fdisk 
> > can not even display the partition table correctly.

> Your connecting the drive to either an ATA/133 or a SATA controller, 
> right?

> If your putting the drive on an ATA/33, ATA/66 or ATA/100 controller then 
> there isn't much that any OS can do to provide you access to the full 
> capacity of the drive.

Yes. I am using a ATA/133 controller. But redhat recognized and set up 
the controller, partitioned the harddrive with disk druid without any 
problem. I think this is a problem with fdisk.

-- 
Bo Peng