The Info that I get is

Disk /dev/hda:16 heads,63 Sectors,4092 Cylinders
Unit = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes


Start End Blocks id System
1 4092 2062336+ 83 Linux

This is the information that I got from fdisk.

Thanks alot

Chamkila

ok the hard drive should have some info about the cylinders on it.

see if they match the info you have.

I think the limitation is the number of cylinders.




some BIOSes erroneously allocate only 12 bits for the cylinder field in CMOS RAM.
Cylinders limit is 4096 cylinders numbered 0-4095 (12 bits)
Heads limit is 16 heads numbered 0-15 (4 bits)
Sectors limit is 63 sectors numbered 1-63 (6 bits)



4096 x 16 x 63 = 4,128,768 sectors



4,128,768 x 512 = 2,113,929,216 bytes 2.1GB (1.97GB)


some disk drives come with a jumper to make them appear 4092/16/63


look for a jumper on the drive


what is the model serial number and manufacturer

Here's something from Micro



The Micro Firmware BIOS upgrades based on 4.03 code do not natively support drives larger than 2 GB. This is due to a bug in which not enough bits in CMOS RAM are being used to store the cylinder number. This bug did not become apparent until drives larger than 2 GB became available. We became aware of this problem on 04/11/96 and immediately began investigating and correcting it.

A hard drive larger than 2GB may autotype at its correct factory parameters but CMOS will not hold those values. The cylinder field is limited to 4095 even though larger values may appear here when a drive is autotyped. We are revising all of our 4.03 BIOS upgrades to support drives up to 8GB as advertised, and free updates will be made available to our customers upon request.

What all this crap seems to be saying is you need to enable LBA in the bios

or force it with kernel params.


/etc/lilo.conf


add this new line

lba 32


then run /sbin/lilo