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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: SCSI disk geometry
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- References: <103801@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.052750.11674@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:27:50 GMT
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- Joe Panico (joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu) wrote:
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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.
-
- I thought the usage was "fdisk /dev/sda". And, just to be fair, Eric Youngdale
- and lots of other folks have been working on the SCSI drivers besides Drew.
-
- Just thought that everyone ought to get credit for it... :)
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- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
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