Re: Ultra10 / woody / 120 GB HD / fdisk and geometry

[Steve Pacenka <s.pacenka@verizon.net>]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 12:54, Nathanael Camelot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to put a 120GB ATA drive im my ultra 10 running stable with
> a 2.4.19 kernel
> 
> A probe-ide shows correctly the drive.
> The kernel seems to be able to read the geometry as shown below :
> 
>     nath@thething:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
>     Maxtor 6Y120L0
>     nath@thething:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry
>     physical     238216/16/63
>     logical      238216/16/63
> 
>     
> But fdisk doesn't want to let me specify a custom geometry (typing ?
> doesn't do anything) :
> 
>     thething:/home/nath# fdisk -v
>     fdisk v2.11n
>     thething:/home/nath# fdisk /dev/hdc
>     [...]
>     Command (m for help): s
>     Building a new sun disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
>     until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
>     content won't be recoverable.
>     [...]
>     Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ?
>     Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ?
>     Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): 0
>     Heads (1-1024, default 16): 16
>     Sectors/track (1-1024, default 63): 63
>     Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606): 238216
>     Value out of range.
>     Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606):
> 
> I understand that 238216 > 65535 and that fdisk can't really accept
> 238216 as an answer :) but how could I partitionate my hard drive ?
> If I use the values given by fdisk, I end with a 20GB-like partition
> scheme, while I'd like to be able to fill up all those GBs :)

I set heads=255, sectors=63, and cyl=9727 in my U10 with an 80G drive. 
It does not complain. :^) 

-- SP