[ale] fdisk Maxtor 40GB drive

[Jim Popovitch]

The simple solution to my 40GB fdisk problem was a tool 
called cfdisk.  Something I'm sure I should have know of, 
but didn't.

Thank you Eric.

-Jim P.

--- "Eric Z. Ayers" <eric.ayers at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I've sucessfully installed an IBM 46GB under Linux as a second drive
> under RH 6.2 a few weeks ago. A couple of suggestions:
> 
> 1) Try firing up 'cfdisk' instead of fdisk and see if it works better
> 2) Try the latest 2.2.18 kernel
> 
> -Eric.
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > 
> > I am having a problem partitioning a new Maxtor 40GB drive.  The
> > BIOS is set to AUTO, and dmesg indicates that Mandrake Linux 7.1
> > (kernel  2.2.15-4) understands the drive parameters.  However,
> > fdisk reports a smaller number of cylinders, thus cheating me
> > out of 3/4 of my new drive. :(  What am I missing on this?
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > dmesg has this:
> >    hdd: Maxtor 54610H6, 43967MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=89331/16/63
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > $ fdisk /dev/hdd
> > 
> > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 23795.
> > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> > and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> >    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> > 
> > Command (m for help): p
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 23795 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
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