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Seagate Elite 23 disk drive on redhat 5.0 linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ballen@dirac.phys.uwm.edu)
Thu Apr 30 00:01:46 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:52:28 -0500
From: ballen@dirac.phys.uwm.edu
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
I have a brand new seagate 23 Gbyte elite disk drive. It was delivered
from the factory with no partition table or other geometry info.
How do I determine the correct or optimal # of heads, cylinders, sectors?
One problem is that if I choose max heads (255) max sectors (63) then
the number of cylinders exceeds 1024. This seems to cause probems in
the partition table: the start and begin fields do not agree, and start
is always <=1023.
I'd greatly appreciate advice. My redhat linux installation fails. The
file-systems appear to build incorrectly, but as soon as the installation
script attempts to mount the disks, an error message:
mount: invalid argument
appears. I don't understand what's wrong. I think it may have to do
with this disk geometry...
Bruce Allen
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