Who stole the Gigs?

[SwimminSasquatch]

Hello all,

I have recently purchased a Seagate 500GB hard drive as a storage unit for one of my systems. I installed it, and Bios detected it as a 500.1GB drive.

So far everything is good, but when I booted Suse 10.1 it would only see 473.6 GB.

The screen on boot gives these details:
Cyl:65535
Hd:16
Sec:255

Parted in Suse gives:
Cyl: 60800
Hd: 16
Sec:255

I tried to enter the Cylinders, etc in the bios manually, but when I did that it gave the size of the drive as 127GB.

How do I get Suse to recognize the entire drive?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[antidrugue]

Can you post the output of

fdisk -l

and of

df -h

?

[SwimminSasquatch]

fdisk -l gives:

Disk /dev/hdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1        2481    19928601   83  Linux
/dev/hdc2            2482        2873     3148740   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdc3            2874       60573   463475250   83  Linux

Now this is odd, it says I have 500.1GB, but the Cyl count is only 60801.

and df -h gives:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc1              20G  5.5G   14G  29% /
udev                 1015M  188K 1014M   1% /dev
/dev/hdc3             442G   54G  389G  12% /mnt/media

Using their numbers: 16065 * 512 * 60573 = 498GB, but adding up the sizes from the df only adds to 462+2GB (for swap). How does this work?

Thanks for your help. Time to go play with parted again.