Problem with 160 GB hard disk on Debian

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Hello,

I have updated my hardware to a 160G HD. And my debian is nos able to read hole disk. The partition table is:
primary hda1 hda2 hda3
extended hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8

But hda8 is loosed and fdisk fails to read partition table, and disk.

must I use some boot option, other kernel??

Now, I dont have my FAT32 partition to share files with windows :-(

thanks for all


TaPa
 

Re: big disk problem

try to use knoppix
ADM
 

Re: big disk problem

what kernel are u using right now?

what debian distribution do you have (version/flavor (stable, testing, unstable))?

Ciao
AxeL
 

big disk problem

does your motherboard accept disk bigger than 128GB ???
 

Re: big disk problem

Hello,

Thank all you. I solve it. The problem was kernel. It reads a wrong geometry from the HD.

I had instaled kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7 from woody (debian) and I have change to 2.4.30 compiled by myself.

Of course my motherboard accept disk bigger than 128GB, and my windows also, and "systen rescue CD" (that use a 2.4.27 kernel) and now my debian with new 2.4.30 kernel.

by the way the HD was a ST3160021A


See you

TaPa
 

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