[H-GEN] Large hard-drive troubles.

[Robert Kearey]

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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, fbrand wrote:

> I presume you have not violated the first 1024 cyls requirement?

I'm not trying to boot off it, so that shouldn't matter as far as I can
tell. Heck, I can't even run fdisk:

[root at ningaui /root]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 22505.
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., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Unable to read /dev/hda
[root at ningaui /root]#
 
> Frank Brand

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