Thanks for your help. This disk is destined to be a boot disk, so I tried using parted. It created a disk label without prompting me for anything. The formatted capacity comes out a bit less than it should be (17274.674 megabytes instead of 18.2G) and if I go back to fdisk and look at the disk geometry it appears to be completely wrong (64 heads instead of 5), but the disk works as far as I can see. (I can create partitions and filesystems and write to them.)
I can live with this situation but if anyone has any further suggestions they would be very welcome. Regards, Ben Mulvihill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
