[574] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 9GB drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Duerstock)
Fri Sep 1 06:39:36 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 00:40:06 -0400
From: Jason Duerstock <jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu>
To: Evan Willett <willett@coam.usm.edu>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9508311425.AA14770@Geo.COAM.USM.Edu>
On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Evan Willett wrote:
> I have 9GB seagate, which works fine with the 1542CF, but any SCSI
> supported by linux should work.
>
> With fdisk v2.0a, I'm only able to use 8064 cylinders(about 8.3GB) of
> the 8669 cylinders. Any ideas on utilizing all of the disk space?
If you're going to use the entire drive for linux, I don't see why you
can't just "mke2fs /dev/sdb" and use the whole thing without a partition
table. I posted a message about it before and nobody came up with any
reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be done.
Jason Duerstock
jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu
jasond@mdcs2.cs.mdcc.edu
