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Re: RH and drive cylinders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Cummings)
Mon Nov 23 03:16:13 1998
From: "Lance Cummings" <lance@tky3.3web.ne.jp>
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 17:15:07 +0900
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I have the same problem with MS products on a 9.1 gb drive. Check,
BTW, your cylinder/gb count. I'm guessing your 1024 mark is right at
7.82 gb rather than 8 gb.
I have been able to use earlier versions of PM, say 3.05, to create
extended that encompasses the entire drive, but it won't touch the space
beyone 1024, nor will anything else -- except Disk Administrator in NT,
which will format a useable FAT16 logical there.
Lance
On 23 Nov 98, at 9:07, rnb/Copenhagen@manbw.dk wrote:
> Hi
>
> Even if it works with Linux, other software is acting up on these cylinder
> counts.
>
> I created a NTFS partition that went from 1024 to 1027 with WinNT, and
> suddenly neither Boot Manager nor Partition Magic could read the partition
> table.
>
> Did the same trick with Partition Magic and everything went smoothly.
> Weird, eh?
>
> BTW: My Quantum 8.4 GB is 1027 cyls. The 1024th cyl. is _exactly_ at the 8
> GB mark.
>
>
> Rene
> rene_b@geocities.com
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
> _________________________________ Subject: Re: RH and drive cylinders
> Author: rickf (rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov) at internet Date: 20-11-98
> 22.35
>
>
>
> linux@lafayettehigh.org said:
> > I know there has been endless conversation on this topic before,
> > but would someone please let me know if a drive over 1024 cylinders can
> > be used with Red Hat Linux and if so how? I've got a Western Digital
> > 6.4G drive with 13328 cylinders. Is this compatible? Thanks in
> > advance.
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> First point is that, for whatever reason, you do not have LBA
> implemented for this drive. On most systems, you should; that alone will
> remove your problem. With LBA in effect you need a drive > 8.0Gb to
> exceed the 1024 cylinders issue; my IBM 9.1 Gb drive shows only 1107.
>
> To answer the rest of your question, yes. My 1107 cylinder drive
> works great with Linux.
>
> I'd check your drive parameters in your BIOS (usually the first
> screen of several) and see what's there. I think you're set to NORMAL or
> LARGE, and should be set to LBA.
>
> Best
> rickf
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>
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> When you load your system with MicroSoft...
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