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Thanx.. Turned out that if I used a 2.2.x kernel as installation kernel that it will handle the drive OK. Seems like 2.0.38 and the like don't grok these drives in combination with the tings the DELL BIOS tells them. <br />
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Under 2.2.x the partition table can be understood (after some grumbling) by simple 'fdisk'. Making some trivial changes and then letting 'fdisk' write it back again makes the rest of the tools happy too.<br />
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Thanx for the pointer anyway! Machine is now happily buzzing along.<br />
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Bye, Arno.
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Thanx.. Turned out that if I used a 2.2.x kernel as installation kernel that it will handle the drive OK. Seems like 2.0.38 and the like don't grok these drives in combination with the tings the DELL BIOS tells them.

Under 2.2.x the partition table can be understood (after some grumbling) by simple 'fdisk'. Making some trivial changes and then letting 'fdisk' write it back again makes the rest of the tools happy too.

Thanx for the pointer anyway! Machine is now happily buzzing along.

Bye, Arno.

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Does anybody have the right CCC/HHH/SSS info for this drive? The DELL BIOS is totally screwed up and Linux only uses the drive as a 8 Gb unit. I used a similar drive on an ASUS P2BF motherboard and that worked flawlessly.<br />
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DELL also partitions their machine in some weird way which makes CFDISK (debian) barf and so does PartitionMagic :-(<br />
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Thanx!<br />
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Bye, Arno.
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Does anybody have the right CCC/HHH/SSS info for this drive? The DELL BIOS is totally screwed up and Linux only uses the drive as a 8 Gb unit. I used a similar drive on an ASUS P2BF motherboard and that worked flawlessly.

DELL also partitions their machine in some weird way which makes CFDISK (debian) barf and so does PartitionMagic :-(

Thanx!

Bye, Arno.

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