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Which kernel version are you running?<br />
using more than 8gb shouldn't be a problem under one of the development kernels (2.1.60+)..<br />
if you are running 2.0.33, then it is a known problem.<br />
2.0.33 lacks UDMA support, and therefor will never go higher than 8gb. Try one of alan cox's 2.0.34pre patches (pre7 or higher)<br />

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Which kernel version are you running?
using more than 8gb shouldn't be a problem under one of the development kernels (2.1.60+)..
if you are running 2.0.33, then it is a known problem.
2.0.33 lacks UDMA support, and therefor will never go higher than 8gb. Try one of alan cox's 2.0.34pre patches (pre7 or higher)


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I have a IDE HDD of 12Gb, but Linux only seems to detect 8G, even if I<br />
give it hd=23361,16,63 as parameters.<br />
I have 1 primary dos partition (3Gb) (fat32) and one extended (2*3Gb) (fat32)<br />
and my ext2 linux partition consists of the last 3 Gb of my disk. Everything<br />
works, but when I try to mount my /dev/hda5 or /dev/hda6 as vfat or <br />
anything else, it says &quot;FAT bread failed&quot;. I suspect this has something<br />
to do with the 8 Gb buisines. <br />

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I have a IDE HDD of 12Gb, but Linux only seems to detect 8G, even if I
give it hd=23361,16,63 as parameters.
I have 1 primary dos partition (3Gb) (fat32) and one extended (2*3Gb) (fat32)
and my ext2 linux partition consists of the last 3 Gb of my disk. Everything
works, but when I try to mount my /dev/hda5 or /dev/hda6 as vfat or 
anything else, it says "FAT bread failed". I suspect this has something
to do with the 8 Gb buisines. 


IDE HDD 12GB

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