On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 12:54, Nathanael Camelot wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to put a 120GB ATA drive im my ultra 10 running stable with > a 2.4.19 kernel > > A probe-ide shows correctly the drive. > The kernel seems to be able to read the geometry as shown below : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/model > Maxtor 6Y120L0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry > physical 238216/16/63 > logical 238216/16/63 > > > But fdisk doesn't want to let me specify a custom geometry (typing ? > doesn't do anything) : > > thething:/home/nath# fdisk -v > fdisk v2.11n > thething:/home/nath# fdisk /dev/hdc > [...] > Command (m for help): s > Building a new sun disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, > until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous > content won't be recoverable. > [...] > Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ? > Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ? > Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): 0 > Heads (1-1024, default 16): 16 > Sectors/track (1-1024, default 63): 63 > Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606): 238216 > Value out of range. > Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606): > > I understand that 238216 > 65535 and that fdisk can't really accept > 238216 as an answer :) but how could I partitionate my hard drive ? > If I use the values given by fdisk, I end with a 20GB-like partition > scheme, while I'd like to be able to fill up all those GBs :)
I set heads=255, sectors=63, and cyl=9727 in my U10 with an 80G drive. It does not complain. :^) -- SP
