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AROS only sees apx. 7.5 GB of a 500 GB HDD

Last updated on 2 months ago

PuniJunior Member

Posted 3 months ago

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!

StudenteerJunior Member

Posted 3 months ago

Sounds like you running your storage on AHCI.
For fixing it, you should check in your BIOS-Settings, if you can switch your mode of handling internal disk from AHCI to SATA or IDE. If possible, select SATA or IDE-Mode and reinstall AROS. After that, you should gain full storage capacity. Note, that your datas saved on your harddisk before will be lost - so a reinstallation of AROS will be nessacary.

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PuniJunior Member

Posted 3 months ago

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

Cheers!

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 months ago

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.

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 months ago

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.

PuniJunior Member

Posted 3 months ago

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. :-)

StudenteerJunior Member

Posted 3 months ago

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - 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.

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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.

The "ahci.device"-problem seems to be related to driver. ANY Computer I had ever installed AROS at least once got those problems when installing on AHCI. Every time facing this bug, it seems like AROS do not know, that there is more space left, when AHCI is activated.

Because of this issue of approx. 7.5 GB space while more available, I recommening to avoid AHCI as driver as possible.

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 months ago

Studenteer wrote:

@Studenteer
The "ahci.device"-problem seems to be related to driver. ANY Computer I had ever installed AROS at least once got those problems when installing on AHCI.

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?

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 months ago

Puni wrote:

@Puni 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. :-)

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

StudenteerJunior Member

Posted 3 months ago

#10

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood -
Studenteer wrote:
@Studenteer
The "ahci.device"-problem seems to be related to driver. ANY Computer I had ever installed AROS at least once got those problems when installing on AHCI.

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?

This issue is repeatable with every computer with AHCI - with the configuration of Puni's computer or any other computer.

Like I said, it is like AROS do not know, that there is more space left then 7.5 GB - no forcing, no work around, just those 7.5 GB avaible (also with the computers of "recommened hardware"). No possiblitly to gain full access to storage-capacity, while running AHCI.

EDIT: As it seems, AROS can see partitions larger then 7.5 GB though AHCI, but it have no option to use those. The storage capacity over 7.5 GB still left untouched.

Edited by Studenteer on 09-02-2024 06:04, 3 months ago

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 months ago

#11

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.

Amiwell79Distro Maintainer

Posted 3 months ago

#12

you can use a usb key installation also

deadwoodAROS Dev

Posted 3 months ago

#13

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

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

Amiwell79Distro Maintainer

Posted 3 months ago

#14

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

Edited by Amiwell79 on 11-02-2024 17:32, 3 months ago

Amiwell79Distro Maintainer

Posted 2 months ago

#15

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

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