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Re: How can I use 4GB SCSI HDD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Wed Jul 12 04:09:30 1995
To: linux@minkowski.etri.re.kr (Linux Mail Account)
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 1995 01:00:38 +0700."
<9507101500.AA11395@minkowski.etri.re.kr>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:34:56 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <9507101500.AA11395@minkowski.etri.re.kr>, linux@minkowski.etri.re.k
r writes:
>
>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.
"some software" is defined as DOS.
>Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> logical=(1024, 0, 1)
>Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> logical=(2047, 63, 32)
>Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> logical=(2048, 0, 1)
>Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> logical=(3813, 63, 32)
This is normal; the physical fields only have 10 bits allocated for
cylinder; they wrap when they end up being different.
>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?
Sure.
