You might need to access the scsi bios (ctrl-a when see scsi message at boot
time) and make sure the bios is enabled for drives larger than 1GB.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

cheers,

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven J. Wolfe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 1:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Can not Fdisk whole drive
>
>
> "Twin*.*Star" wrote:
>
> > Have a HP PC with built in Adaptec 1740 SCSI card attached to a IBM DORS
> > 3216, 2 Gb hard drive. When doing fidisk, the maximum size
> available shown
> > in fdisk is 1 Gb. Have tried fdisk /MBR which did not change the 1 Gb
> > maximum available size shown in Fdisk.
> >
> > Any ideas what is causing this problem and any fixes?
> >
>
> Have you tried viewing what partitions are on the drive already? Are there
> any Non dos Partitions using the space? I would guess there is some other
> partition already using the space! Did you make sure to remove
> any, and all
> other partitions first?
>
> Steve.......
>

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