Re: 50GB Hard drive size in amiga-fdisk
Hello Rolf,
Thanks for letting me know that this is at least possible. I believe
I'm using the etch-m68k version of amiga-fdisk:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii amiga-fdisk 0.04-11 Partition editor for Amiga
I don't recall if I originally partitioned this drive on AmigaDos tools.
I do have a couple AmigaDos partions on it, though, which have mirrors
of my current AmigaDos partitions and I can boot off the drive.
Regards,
--Lance
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:35:19PM +0200, Rolf Anders wrote:
> Hello Lance,
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a 50GB SCSI hard drive set up on my Amiga system under Debian. The amiga-fdisk shows
> > the ~1,000,000 blocks of the drive, but comes up with a logical cylinders value which does not allow me
> > to use the entire drive space.
>
> I setup a 73GB drive some time ago using amiga-fdisk from sarge. I'm not
> sure, however, if I initialised the RDB with HDToolBox before using fdisk.
>
> If fdisk sets the size of the logical cylinders wrongly for your hard
> drive, you can try to edit the number of heads/sectors/cylinders directly
> with a hex-editor. The RDB is located in the first 1 or 2 blocks of the
> drive.
>
> rolf@snoopy:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 8924 cylinders, RDB: 0
> Logical Cylinders from 2 to 8923, 8225280 bytes/Cylinder
>
> Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri BBlks System
> /dev/sda1 * * 2 26 200812 0 0 Amiga FFS
> /dev/sda2 27 99 586372 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda3 100 162 506047 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda4 163 225 506047 0 0 Linux native
> /dev/sda5 226 625 3213000 0 0 Linux
> native
> /dev/sda6 626 775 1204875 0 0 Linux
> native
> /dev/sda7 776 8873 65047185 0 0 Linux
> native
> /dev/sda8 8874 8923 401625 0 0 Linux swap
>
> rolf@snoopy:~$ dpkg -l amiga-fdisk
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii amiga-fdisk 0.04-9 Partition editor for Amiga
>
> Greetings,
>
> Rolf
>
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