Re: Ultra 10 and 40gb disk
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 03:36, Erwan MAS wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> I have a sparc ultra 10 with two hardisk ( 40 Gb / ATA ) .
>
> hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1820KiB Cache, CHS=77557/16/63, (U)DMA
> hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
> hdc: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, (U)DMA
>
>
> I must use fdisk an make a 'Sun disk label' on the disk .
>
> fdisk seem to have a limit at 65535 cylinders .
>
> in my case , fdisk /dev/hdc :
>
> | Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ?
> | Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): 0
> | Heads (1-1024): 16
> | Sectors/track (1-1024): 63
> | Cylinders (1-65535): 79780
> | Value out of range.
>
> How I can specify more cylinders ?
IDE geometry parameters are partly fictional. You have to stay within
what FDISK says are the ranges for each setting but you can trade
between them.
The 80G drive in my U10 has a label that says 255 heads, 63 sectors, and
9727 cylinders.
-- SP
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