Hi,

A beginner with AROS here.

I managed to install AROS on a laptop. Unfortunately I can't get it to see more than apx. 7.5 GB of the HDD's size. The original size of the HDD is 500 GB. It had Linux (Peppermint) on it from before, but wiped the disk (using the AROS Installer tool), so it should all be gone. I've also used HDToolbox to try to partition it manually, but only about 7.5 GB of free space shows up there as well. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the helpful information. You are correct in that I'm running AHCI. I will try what you suggested! Cheers!

Let me know if switching to ata.device solves your issues. That would be weird and definatelly something to look into - there shouldn't be such limitation on ahci.device.

One other thing you could try is during InstallAROS instead of letting AROS use "whole" size of disk, force it to use something like 120GB. If I recall correctly it is possible that AROS has 128GB partition size limit so your whole disk won't be used anyhow.

Unfortunately, the BIOS does not allow (it does not even have the option) to switch to SATA/IDE. The laptop is from HP. I checked customer service and this is one of many laptops HP has released that has this restriction. I got an error message when I tried to force it to use a specific size. I think I will use this machine for another project and find a more suitable one for AROS. :-) If you are interested Deadwood, I can post the specs of the computer here along with the error message I receive? Thanks for the help so far. :-)

So this is not repeatable? I mean on the same configuration one installation process will use whole disk and the other process will be locked at 7.5GB?

No need right now - I will try to reproduce this problem on test hardware I have.

Hmm, I didn't pay attention when doing test installs on AHCI last week. I will repeat these tests to see if this happens on my configurations as well.

you can use a usb key installation also

FYI, I confirmed this issues and created a bug report for it:

https://github.com/deadwood2/AROS/issues/135

thank you at least now we know that the sata implementation works even if it has limitations at the moment

at the moment 7.5 Gb may be enough aros does not take up that much space