On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Steve Pacenka wrote: > I understand that there are limits on the three values in a U10, I > believe 255 heads, 63 sectors, and 16383 cyl. > > 120G and 80G drives work okay in my U10, with OBP 3.19.4 1999/04/28. > Geometries are 14593 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sectors, and 9729/255/63 > respectively.
Yes, exactly. This is fdisk -l run on my 120GB ST3120026A disk. It is used in my Ultra10 as the boot disk. 14593 is the highest possible cylinder count for this drive. Disk /dev/hde (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7200 rpm 14593 cylinders, 0 alternate cylinders, 14593 physical cylinders 0 extra sects/cyl, interleave 1:1 Linux custom cyl 14593 alt 0 hd 255 sec 63 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 0 12 96390 83 Linux native /dev/hde2 12 139 1020127+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde3 0 14593 117218272+ 5 Whole disk /dev/hde4 139 776 5116702+ 83 Linux native /dev/hde5 776 14593 110985052+ 8e Linux LVM -- Jan Houstek
