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I use a debian woody 2.4.18 kernel and tried to make a clean install on this brand new harddrive. When I tried to partition this harddrive, only 137Gb was available.
My question is, how can i get the remaining 43Gb visible and partition it.
I am trying to get 2 of this drives working as a mirror with a Promise TX2 FastTrak card.
This is most likely due to a limitation of the ATA interface you're using, which uses only 28 bits for addressing. That is, it is not the OS or the Hitachi drive at fault, rather the ATA controller. More info here:
Thx Geoff_f for your reply, i know that the promise card i have uses 48-bit addressing. That's why i bought it.
If i partition this card from dos, with partition magic. I can get all the 180Gb and use it. But i don't want to install Windoze on it.
It is just a PII 400 MHz with 256Mb of memory.
But could it be a problem that i can't disable my onboard IDE controller? I compiled a new kernel with the promise drivers build in.
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