[579] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 9GB drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Fri Sep 1 19:56:53 1995
To: willett@coam.usm.edu (Evan Willett)
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:25:19 CDT."
<9508311425.AA14770@Geo.COAM.USM.Edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 09:21:15 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <9508311425.AA14770@Geo.COAM.USM.Edu>, willett@coam.usm.edu writes:
>>
>> : Does anyone here use one of the BIG 9gig drives? We are thinking of
>> : getting one for news and would like to know what kind of SCSI cards you
>> : are using and also if you manage to get the full 9gig capacity out of
>> : them. Thanks.
>>
>> I have a Micropolis 9.1GB SCSI disk on my Adaptec 1542CF SCSI adapter.
>> I get full capacity out of it.
>>
>
>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?
Sure. Linux ignores the H/C/S entries in the partition table and
just uses the 32 bit fields. Manually edit the table with a disk editor
or whatever, and setup the partitions you want, probably using some bogus
value (0,0,0) for the H/C/S fields and start + length fields which add
up to arround 18874368 sectors on the last partition you add.
