maxtor drive issue

[dep]

begin  Richard R. Sivernell's  quote:

|   What does fdisk/cfdisk say about the partitions. How large is the
| drive, may need
| to break it into a couple of primary drives. I have a couple of
| those drives @5400 rpm
| 30 40 & a 60 g each. I have had no problems.

it's a 40 gigger. no idea what fdisk has to say (well, i do -- it's 
going to say nothing about partitions because the drive has never 
been partitioned), because the install doesn't get that far. i'm 
trying to oversee the install by remote control -- my sister's 1,000 
miles away.

the drive is the new 7200 rpm, ata-6 thing, and apparently their 
iteration of ata-6 leaves something to be desired. i'm half of a mind 
to send her out to get a plain old ide cable, which pretty much 
disables the ata-133 stuff; the machine has an award bios, and i'm 
unaccustomed to those (i think; i've used one or two, but i don't 
know 'em well enough to get a good mental picture), so i don't know 
if there's a way to force something a little less ambitious.
-- 
dep

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