KevinO,

I finally got it to work...I had used 85 (Linux Extended) as the 
partition type instead of 83 (Linux).  Once I used 83, I was able to 
format the drive and use it.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Mark

KevinO wrote:

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>Alan Dayley wrote:
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>>On Saturday 04 December 2004 09:30 pm, KevinO wrote:
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>>>Putting a drive too large for the motherboard/BIOS to handle?
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>>This is not a problem for Linux.  The IDE (ATA) controller drivers in Linux 
>>talk to the controller chip directly and do not depend on the motherboard 
>>BIOS for hard drive information.  Put a 10GB drive on a motherboard BIOS that 
>>only sees 8GB and Linux will run the 10GB, no matter what the BIOS says!
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>>Alan
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>That and... if I'd seen the responses and that the problem was solved, I
>wouldn't have posted an answer.
>
>Thanks,
>
>- --
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