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Red Hat 7.2 Linux Distro and hard drive size error...

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Morgy

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I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.2 and when it gets to the partitioning section in all 3 modes, it says my 30 gig hard drive is only 2016 MB.

For some background information here is the hardware:
Abit KT7-Raid
AMD Duron 700 MHz
IBM 30 gig ATA-100 7200 RPM
HP 4x4x24 CD-RW
AOpen 24x10x40 CD-RW
Sound Blaster Audigy
D-Link 10/100 NIC
Voodoo 3 2000
160 MB PC100 SDRAM
400 watt PSU

Thanks in advance!

Morgan
 
No, but the drive is connected to the RAID controller, however when used on the ata33/66 controller same error.
 
Have you tried updating the BIOS on your board (shouldnt affect it, but you never know)? Or maybe another hard drive?
 
I do have the latest bios for the KT7-R (64)
I installed the distro on my 10 gig and everything worked correctly. Is it possible that Linux has an imcompatability with this hard drive or a size limit? Would seem quite odd. IBM 75GXP 30 Gig ATA-100 7200 RPM (307030 in the bios).
 
What size is reported by kernel during boot-up process? (those messages came right after IDE controller detection, you can stop booting process with Ctrl+s and view pervious messages with shift+pageup/down or ctrl+pageup/down I belive). Does right HDD size will be reported by BIOS? Maybe HDD is jumpered into some kind of "limit capacity" positsion?
 
The BIOS detects the drive correctly and I had Windows installed on all 30 gigs before I attempted Linux. So the size limit isnt the case. Unless anyone has any other Ideas I'm going to move the hard drive to another system an attempt to install it with a completely different system configuration on that hard drive. (sorry if it doesnt make sense...people talking to me, so i get confused easily who cares)
 


<< Maybe HDD is jumpered into some kind of "limit capacity" positsion? >>



Your the winner! Yes that was what had happened (now i feel like an idiot for not looking!)
There is a 2GB limit jumper setting that is sent as the default factory settings on the IBM 75GXP. (Or maybe mine just happened to come that way)
I guess windows can get around this but thats another issue.

Thanks for all your help!
 
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