[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> This looks to me like a transient hardware error. I think it is nothing
> to do with being nearly out of space, except that you might be forcing
> the drive to use areas of the medium that are less robust than the
> best parts.
Or uncorrectly mapped. BTW I should have made clearer that I am not
short on space anymore.
> > I remember I fighted hard to partition the disk without losing space
> > despite the 1024 cylinder boundary, but maybe I did something wrong.
> > Now if I run "fdisk -l" I get for hda4:
> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> A mapping with 255 heads is probably wrong. Maximum head number 255,
> maybe, but head number 0 is valid, so that is 256 heads. I don't know
> if you can just change it without at least disrupting LILO and maybe
> losing some data. Linux itself doesn't use the mapping, rather it works
> the hardware directly. It is just for boot progams like LILO and
> for dose/windose 3.1. Maybe the "greater" windose use it too, FAIK.
> >
AFAIK increasing the number of heads was the only workaround to access
all the disk space. I used fdisk 2.8, but maybe more recent versions
don't have those limitations?
Thanks
--
Alexandre Oberlin
http://www.altern.org/ao
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