[TriLUG] Any problems with a 160 GB IDE disk?

[Matthew Lavigne]

Should be fine.  I have had no issues with >138 GB with Linux or with
Windows XP (as long as you are installed Slipstreamed SP1).


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:47:17 -0400, Tom Bryan <tbryan at python.net> wrote:
> I have a Seagate 160 GB IDE disk.  I did some poking around on the Web, and I
> saw a lot of discussion over people who could only access the first 138 GB of
> a 160 GB disk.
> 
> The IDE disk comes with a CD for setting up the disk under Windows and on a
> Mac.  From an initial look, I think that the CD essentiall has user manuals
> and a copy of "DiscWizard" which I'm guessing they ship to help partition the
> disk...not sure though.
> 
> It looks like the CD might be able to bootstrap itself into some sort of
> bootable DOS/Windows image on the CD, but that fails on my system because I
> have a SCSI CD-ROM drive.  I have a spare IDE CD-ROM, but this is starting to
> be silly.  I'm not sure what that CD could have on it that I can't already do
> with fdisk.
> 
> If I run fdisk and I see the following.  It looks like fdisk is seeing the
> whole disk.  Does anyone think that I'll get into trouble if I partition the
> disk with fdisk and just go with that?
> 
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
> disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content
> won't be recoverable.
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19457.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> 
> Command (m for help): q
> 
> ---Tom
> 
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