heads/sectors/cyls info for Iomega ZIP drive

[Kevin Glynn <keving@cs.mu.OZ.AU>]

Hi y'all,

I have a Iomega ZIP disk but fdisk doesn't seem to be able to detect
head, sector and cylinder info for it:

twiglet:~# fdisk /dev/hdb
You must set heads sectors and cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.

Command (m for help): q


If I manually enter them I can re-partition and create file systems
etc. (I got the numbers from a web page showing how to configure ZIP
devices, but it seemed to work automatically for them.)

Why isn't it autodetected?  Can I put the information somewhere? Can
someone remind me what the numbers are! (I've lost the url ....)

thanks for your help,

Kevin