From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: Linux and big disks Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 04:24:28 GMT
In article <1992Nov28.034923.25112@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
>I just went to load Linux on my 1.4GB SCSI disk. The data sheet says
>"average sectors per track (with spares) 87. Linux fdisk accepts up
>to 63.
>
>Now what?
Your SCSI host does some sort of mapping between 3d (head, cylinder, and
sector) coordinates as seen by BIOS and the native logical block addressing
used by SCSI disks. You need to use whatever the SCSI board uses -
see your documentation.
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