[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Orlando Andico wrote:
> > No, its not. Even the commandline fdisk can have problems, particularly
> > when the disk is shared with another OS which has a different idea of what
> > the CHS mapping will be. If its a Linux-only drive, then yes, the problem
> > is simpler. However (check the IDE documentation) overly large disks still
> > cannot be handled by fdisk unless you pass the appropriate CHS parameters.
>
> you mentioned to check the IDE documentation about overly large disks,
> however u specified IDE. does that mean SCSI is not affected by this
> problem?
Yes. The C/H/S mapping is a PC-ism that is abstracted out by SCSI.
Brian
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