I wonder if fdisk was just reporting the existing partition arrangements
first?
Although both drives were the same brand (I hope), possibly one was
partitioned by the manufacturer or reseller beforehand.
If it now works, I wouldn't worry about it.
Regards,
Jill.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Lowndes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 14 September 2001 7:48
> To: SLUG Mailing List
> Subject: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?
>
> At this point I selected hda and set up the partitions I
> wanted, noting that the
> C/H/S was 2434/63/255 giving blocks of 16065*512 bytes.
> I then selected hdc but noticed that the C/H/S was different,
> being ?????/63/16
> (I think the ????? was about 38792, but it is not important)
> giving blocks of
> 1008*512 bytes.
> I selected expert mode and altered the C/H/S to match the
> values of hda, and
> then created the partitions.
> All went OK after that.
>
> Questions
> 1. Is this a problem with fdisk, or is it a problem with
> the drives?
> 2. Would I have been better off to set hda to the finer
> granularity of hdc, or
> was I correct in using the coarser granularity that I did, or
> does it matter?
> 3. WTFG?
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