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- From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: SCSI disk geometry
- Message-ID: <103801@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 03:08:42 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania
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- Hi Drew,
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- Great work on the SCSI drivers-- this has opened new venues for me. I'm
- having a small problem. "fdisk sda1" will not let me change the partition
- table until I feed it the disk geometry (hd,cyl,sect). What geometry does
- linux want to see? Dummy values produce errors when I mkefs. If I use
- the geometry provided by drive manufacturer (MAXTOR), I cannot make a
- single partition larger than something like 64M, even though I using
- ext fs. What is the proper way to do this. If it helps, I'm running
- SLS p5-49. Thanks very much for any help you can give me.
-
- Joe Panico
- joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
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