Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ 3i] additional 40Gb HDD - can't see more than 5Gb

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, but fdisk will not allow me to see more than 12009 cylinders, so fdisk
> doesn't see the whole disk.
>
> >  [root@cobalt /root]# fdisk /dev/hdb
> >  Command (m for help): p
> >  Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 12009 cylinders
> >  Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

It sounds to me like you might have a bad disk...
You could try to reinit it.
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdx
where x is the drive b, c, or d
This will take some time....
Then put it back in the RaQ

Gerald
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