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Re: fdisk not working on new drive
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Tracy Nelson wrote:
> 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.
Yes, this is the _EXACT_ same problem.
Set the cylinders, heads, etc. write them to disk, reboot, and try again.
Once you reboot the values will be correct.
These values are only read at boot.
>From the data below, I can see that you LARGE disk is being translated
(probably via LBA although there are others).
> >
> > Also, if the problem continues attach the output of fdisk -l.
> >
>
> Here 'tis:
> ---
> 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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