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Pentium/Neptune, NCR 53C810, Fujitsu M2915S-512 Slackware 2.3

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chang Eric Y (214)509-3562)
Thu Jun 15 12:14:23 1995

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:17:04 CDT
From: ericc@Arco.COM (Chang Eric Y (214)509-3562)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu

Hi Jeremy.  You wrote:
hd=3012,15,89

Any other combinations I've tried result in failure.  (And this one 
doesn't work very well).
             ^^^^^^^^^
What does this mean?  Does it mean that there is an uneven sector
boundary between partitions?  This often happens when using big IDE
drives (>1024 cylinders).  It appears that the BIOS is only storing
up to this limit, and that is what Linux is reading.  This can be
fixed with a kernel hack, or it can be fixed by using the xpert option
on fdisk and entering the correct parameters.  Linux will have no
trouble with these.  Eric

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