Ray wrote:
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 25228.
> 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., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
See the conflict with your earlier statement:
> This is a Quantum CR13.0A drive. 1528 cyl 255 heads 63 secs
No disk can have two values for number of cylinders!
It seems that this drive has never been set up with Logical Block
Addressing (LBA). You need that with disks this large (over 1024
cylinders).
The only way I know to set it up LBA on an existing used disk
involves:
Copying all partitions you want to save off to another drive
Deleting ALL the partitions on this disk, primary, logical and
extended.
Reboot the machine intercepting the BIOS with DEL.
Get the BIOS to redetect all the hard disks, taking care to set this
one to LBA. The drive itself will now remember that it is LBA and
always report 255 sectors and 63 heads from now on.
Use your partitioning utility to set up 3 primary partitions of
minimum size, unformatted. If you run Windows from this disk, make
the first unformatted and big enough for that.
Create an extended partition over the entire remainder of the disk.
Copy back all the saved partitions. You will have to delete the new
Windows partition to release the primary space for the Windows
partition copy back.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
