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How can I use 4GB SCSI HDD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linux Mail Account)
Tue Jul 11 19:54:29 1995
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 01:00:38 KDT
From: linux@minkowski.etri.re.kr (Linux Mail Account)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi.
I'm using Adaptec SCSI 1542CF adaptor and 1GB Micropolis
HDD. There was no problem. Yesterday, I was going to attach
Sequel 4GB SCSI HDD. But fdisk warned number of cylinder of
the HDD exceed 1024 with following message:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3814.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with some software.
Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
And after partitioning with 3 partitions
of size 1G/1G/2G, fdisk said that they are overlapped.
At that time, the warning messages as follows:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 3814 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1 1024 1048560 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb2 1024 1025 2048 1048576 83 Linux native
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 63, 32) logical=(1024, 0, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) logical=(2047, 63, 32)
Partition 2 does not start on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) should be (1023, 0, 1)
/dev/sdb3 2048 2049 3814 1808384 83 Linux native
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023, 63, 32) logical=(2048, 0, 1)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) logical=(3813, 63, 32)
Partition 3 does not start on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 63, 32) should be (1023, 0, 1)
How can I use the 4GB HDD under Linux?
(My linux kernel version is 1.2.10. and fdisk version is 1.5b.)
Is it possible to use it on my configuration?
Any comments pleased.
Thank you.
Jong-Hyeon Lee
