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Re: large hard disks (again)




--- Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com> wrote:
> The 2.2 kernels will properly detect >1024
> cylinders.  For other kernels,
> you can put fdisk in "x"pert mode and override its
> detection, or you
> can also specify the disk geometry on the kernel
> command line.
> 
> Regards,
>
Exactly what I suspected.  Only how to figure out the
geometry in the first place?  Anyway I now have that
information for the disk in question.  As soon as
potato is release it will be water under the bridge.

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