Re: Trouble with 3GB EIDE drive

[Tobias Weingartner <weingart@wolfram.com>]

On Tuesday, July 7, Dan Grabski wrote:
> > Ok, translation is not happening in the BIOS.  The bios thinks that the
> > disk is a 1023*16*63/2048 == 503MB disk.  It is simply truncating the
> > cylinder values.
> > 
> > Have a look in your bios setup.  Set the disk type to LBA if you have it,
> > or some sort of "translated" setting if you don't.
> 
> I set the hard drive to the LBA setting, and fdisk reports the
> geometry as 511/32/63 -- still the 503MB. Had the same problem
> with the disklabel editor running out of space on the hard
> drive. There is no translated setting inn the BIOS.

Ok, one more try.  When the system boots up, at the "boot>" prompt, type
in:  'machine diskinfo', and tell me what the geometry for both LBA and
LARGE settings are please.


--Toby.