From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: SCSI disk geometry Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:27:50 GMT
Joe Panico (joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu) wrote:
: Great work on the SCSI drivers-- this has opened new venues for me. I'm
: having a small problem. "fdisk sda1" will not let me change the partition
: table until I feed it the disk geometry (hd,cyl,sect). What geometry does
: linux want to see? Dummy values produce errors when I mkefs. If I use
: the geometry provided by drive manufacturer (MAXTOR), I cannot make a
: single partition larger than something like 64M, even though I using
: ext fs. What is the proper way to do this. If it helps, I'm running
: SLS p5-49. Thanks very much for any help you can give me.
I thought the usage was "fdisk /dev/sda". And, just to be fair, Eric Youngdale
and lots of other folks have been working on the SCSI drivers besides Drew.
Just thought that everyone ought to get credit for it... :)
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