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You may have a BIOS that does not properly handle large IDE hard drives. The manufacturer of the drive should have instructions for resolving such situations. Usually there is a specific drive geometry (cylinders heads and sectors per track) that you can configure manually in your BIOS to solve this problem. Once the BIOS is configured properly and the NetMAX system boots you are done (you do NOT need to install any drivers or software provided by the manufacturer).

You can usually see how the Linux OS is seeing the hard drive's geometry during installation by following these commands:

1. From the console, boot from the installation CD-ROM.
2. When it starts asking for the IP type (static, DHCP, None), hit CTRL-C.
3. Enter: chroot /CDROM/NETMAX and press ENTER.
4. You should see a "#" prompt.
5. Enter: fdisk -l /dev/hda and press ENTER.

Another way is to cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry

Note: The manually configured drive geometry will usually define a small drive this is OK once the system has booted the full drive capacity will be available.
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