Re: Problems adding a second hard drive

Mark Phillips wrote:
> I added a second hard drive to an older EIDE system, but I cannot get a
> file system on it. This is not my primary drive, but a second drive.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> 1. Ran fdisk and wrote the following partition table:
> spongebob:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
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> So, what am I doing wrong?
>
Putting a drive too large for the motherboard/BIOS to handle?

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