On Jul 13, 2002 at 13:47, Q u a s i wrote:
At 04:16 AM 7/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
So now I'm embarassed: Why did Linux fdisk not recognize it for what it was, the first time?
Did you have the latest version of fdisk? There is a large difference between the current one and the one which came with the Debian Potato 2.2 - or so was my experience.
I couldn't find fdisk anywhere. cfdisk had the same problem, and I did find cfdisk at ibiblio.
The odd thing is that fdisk was able to recognize the drive correctly after DOS fdisk had created a partition table on it.
There is something called LBA32 which is prevalent as of today I think. If your bios does not support it then LBA is next best, maybe?
I had to tell LILO LBA32... and that has nothing to do with this. The BIOS shouldn't be that old, I bought it in February.