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Re: BT-956C + mutating partition table? (2.0.25)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Owens)
Sun Feb 23 18:30:40 1997
From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: ptb@dit.upm.es
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:48:41 BST."
<199702231748.SAA04368@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:17:48 +1100
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:48:41 +0100 (MET),
"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>Can someone tell me why some "Begin" entries in this SCSI fdisk
>table _seem_ to have mutated to 1024? I am almost sure they didn't start
>life that way.
It is an artifact of fdisk/partition table restrictions. Begin
cylinders above 1024 are reduced to a multiple of 1024. Rely on the
start cylinders, not begin. Not only a SCSI problem, happens on any
disk with > 1024 cylinders.
