Sorry, I was not clear in my question. I'm not concerned with the cylinders being greater than 1024 (unless I should be). The issue I have is that I cannot delete the existing partitions and, therefore, cannot repartition the hard drive. Donald McGahan
--- Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 15 Jun 06, 6:37 AM, Donald Greg McGahan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I have a 100Gb Seagate 2.5 inch hard drive that currently has a > ntfs > > partition, and extended partition with a fat32 partition within it. > I > > wanted to repartition it to a single fat32 partition. I removed it > from > > it's (third party) external enclosure and installed it as an > secondary > > IDE slave (adapter) in my AMD K7 (1.33MHz) Ubuntu OS box. > > I cannot seem to accomplish this task?!? > > I've tired deleting all of the partitions and then writing but no > joy. > > I've been fussing with this on and off for a few days and thought I > get > > some help. > > Here is what I'm doing. > > I pop open a terminal window and > > > > fdisk /dev/hdd (i've tried both with sudo and sudo su) > > > > then > > > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/hdd: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hdd1 1 10027 80541846 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hdd2 10028 12161 17141355 f W95 Ext'd > (LBA) > > /dev/hdd5 10028 12161 17141323+ b W95 FAT32 > > > > Command (m for help): d > > Partition number (1-5): 5 > > > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/hdd: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hdd1 1 10027 80541846 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hdd2 10028 12161 17141355 f W95 Ext'd > (LBA) > > > > Command (m for help): w > > The partition table has been altered! > > > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > > Syncing disks. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/hdd > > > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 12161. > > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) > > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/hdd: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hdd1 1 10027 80541846 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hdd2 10028 12161 17141355 f W95 Ext'd > (LBA) > > /dev/hdd5 10028 12161 17141323+ b W95 FAT32 > > I was under the impression that BIOS automagically does translation > to get > around this. It uses some geometry for disk I/O and, transparently, > a fake > geometry when talking to things like DOS. There's a "large hard > drive" > HOWTO (or something like that) which gives gory details. > > If your BIOS is newer than, say, mid-nineties, I don't think this is > really > an issue, and hasn't been for over a decade. > > Pete > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
