Re: fdisk not working on new drive

[Tracy Nelson <tnelson@fast.net>]

David L. Martin wrote:

> Go into expert mode and manually enter the heads, sectors and cylinders.
> That worked for me.

Hmmm, not for me.  fdisk keeps forcing the cylinder count to 1027.  I
clear all the partition info, set the cylinders and heads, then create
my partitions and write them out to the disk.  When I do a fdisk -l, I
see that the drive has been set to 255 heads, 63 sectors and 1027
cylinders.
> 
> Also, if the problem continues attach the output of fdisk -l.
> 

Here 'tis:
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The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1            1        1       13   102784+  83  Linux native
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(203, 15, 63) should be (203, 254, 63)
/dev/hdc2          205       13      144  1048824   83  Linux native
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hdc3         1024      144      274  1048824   83  Linux native
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hdc4         1024      274     1028  6056568    5  Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
===
I also tried firing up the RH installer (I'm using RH5.1) and using Disk
Druid on it, but that didn't work either.  The drive is configured
correctly in my system BIOS, so I'm pretty sure it's identifying itself
correctly to the system.

Back to the cotton mines....
-- Tracy

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