160 gb drive in old system

[rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org (Rusty Shackleford)]

By the way, there is only one disk in the computer.

On 5/20/07, Rusty <rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Correct the live cd only sees part of the drive.  It is a Maxtor drive
> brand
> new out of the box. Fdisk shows two disks but only one is accessible it
> says
> hda is 61gb and hdd is 160.  I cannot access anything but hda.
>
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> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Paul Baumgardner
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:23 PM
> To: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: 160 gb drive in old system
>
> On 5/19/07, Rusty <rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Windos machines that I have put 160 gb drives in I had always just
> put
> > the driver into windows and had no problem, but I can not seem to find a
> > similar driver for my old linux machine.  I put the drive in and gentoo
> only
> > sees 61 or so gb.  I was going to put freenas on the system and I would
> > really like to be able to use all the space on it.  Any ideas or similar
> > problems?  By the way, I tried to boot gparted on there and that would
> not
> > even come up all the way.
>
> When you say Gentoo only sees 61GB, you mean you booted from a Gentoo
> Live CD and it only sees that much space?
>
> What kind of hard drive is it?  What does fdisk -l show you?  Is this
> a clean drive, or do you already have NTFS partitions on it?
>
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