* Glenn Pedersen (glennped@globalfreeway.com.au) [20000327 04:03]:
Hi everyone, I just got a Quantum 10 Gig drive and because my bios only sees it as eight meg I need to use a drive manager program to correct it.
First of all, try and see if you really can't get an updated BIOS for your mobo. At least ASUS even supplies EPROMs for older 486 boards. Check out your mobo manufacturers web page for whether a BIOS with support for more than 8 gig is available. If you are lucky and it exists, updating your BIOS and getting rid of DM is by far the superior solution. Getting rid of DM would of cause necessitate backing up your data as a repartitioning would be required.
I need to do this cause i dual boot windows to play games when I get frustrated with Linux :)
The boot message shows this first hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A, 9787MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63 then lower down it shows this hda: [DM6:DDO] [remap +63] [-1072536478/64/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda3
Yep, here the kernel detects that DM is in action and reacts accordingly .
Cfdisk gives me this info cfdisk 2.9z
and fdisk tells me i have errors ie
Should I be worried about this? Everything seems to be working ok but i don't want things to stuff up later on.
Let me quote from the fdisk man page:
There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its
problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk,
fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful program
that has strict requirements on the partition tables it
accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use
it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy
things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results.
Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD
disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it
if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only - the user inter
I guess this speaks for itself :) The only drawback is, that at least up to
6.4, YaST1 and YaST2 use fdisk under the cover and I don't know if the fact
that fdisk gets confused will present problems.
Just keep in mind that you will have to do repartitioning at the moment you
drop DM, e.g. when you decide to upgrade the mobo.
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas