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Re: Seagate Elite 23 disk drive on redhat 5.0 linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr. James W. Laferriere)
Thu Apr 30 01:09:09 1998
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@nwrain.net>
To: ballen@dirac.phys.uwm.edu
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199804300352.WAA17906@phys.uwm.edu>
Hello Bruce,
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 ballen@dirac.phys.uwm.edu wrote:
> 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.
The best method I've found is to grab a small 1GB disk
for the OS pertinant items & partition the -beast- for
several smaller parts (usually evenly) then tack these
parts into the filesystem at reasonable locations.
IE:
/dev/sda one partition /dev/sda1 1.0G
/dev/sdb partition one /dev/sdb1 ~8.0G
/dev/sdb partition two /dev/sdb2 ~8.0G
/dev/sdb partition three /dev/sdb3 ~8.0G
Although (supposedly) there would be -no problem- using
this drive as the second drive in anyway. But as the
booting drive -LILO- is the one that has a problem.
> 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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, JimL
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