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2003 Apr 04
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Hard Drive size not correctly being Detected on Dell 8100
...onto my Dell
Inspirion 8100. I'mjust doing a Standard installation and when FDisk loads I
get:
Disk name: ad0
DISK Geometry: 88 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 1413720 sectors (690MB)
So I go and manually change the drive geometry with the G option and it
shows the windows 2000 NTFS partition as 692Mb instead of 9.76Gb that it
really is.
I found the HD model number with Google on someone elses dmesg and got the
correct CHS:
ad0: 28615MB <IC25N030ATDA04-0> [58140/16/63]
This is what is shown before sysinstall launches, with the stuff in
parentheses as ASCII characters:
ad0: dma limited to...