[NCLUG] HDD formatting problems... Never mind.

[dobbster]

DUHH...  I was on a wild goose chase, thought it was a problem with my
BIOS not seeing > 8GB disks.  Turned out that I had an extra jumper
setting it to the wrong number of cylinders...

> My kernel is 2.2.15-4mdk...  dmesg shows
> hdd: WDC WD205BA, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: WDC WD205BA, 8063MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63.

And after I removed the jumper,

hdd: WDC WD205BA, ATA DISK drive
hdd: WDC WD205BA, 19574MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=39770/16/63 

Now fdisk works fine, and I mkfs'ed and I am ready to go.

The lesson is one I know already: RTFM.  I wasted a lot of time on this.

I enjoyed the Install Fest today...  I plan to come to a meeting soon
and see you again!

> Thanks,
> 
> Mark (dobbster at frii.com)