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Subject: Re: Where to find info on using a large harddrive
From: Markus Goetz <guruz () gmx ! de>
Date: 1999-08-30 17:08:59
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Hi
>Sorry, I know that this is NOT a KDE question, but I desperate need help.
>
>I just got a 18GB disk, and Linux find it - no problem
>
>I then use cfdisk to create 2 partitions, a 14GB and a 3.6GB (the rest)
>mke2fs -c /dev/hdc1
>fsck /dev/hdc1
>reports no error
>
>mke2fs -c /dev/hdc2
>fsck /dev/hdc1
>reports no error
>
>then I do a
>dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=10000 count=100000
>
>and after a while I get a kernel panic dump
>
>What can i do to make this disk work ??
I just bought a 13 GB disk and i only created partitions with the max size of 2
GB and it worked !
>Btw. the BIOS tells be that it's a 8GB disk
do a bios update
Markus
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