> From: David Hamm <[email protected]>
>
> I have an 84g raid unit I'm trying to fdisk. When the computer boots I get
> the following info on the drive.
> SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 164659200 [80400 MB] [80.4 GB]
> When I fdisk it I get different info and after partitioning and mke2fs the
> dirve only mounts with 14g of space. I know this is a geometry issue but why
> is it an issue? Can fdisk be fixed?
>
> Not if you do not provide any detail at all.
From [email protected] Mon Jan 25 16:48:31 1999
From: David Hamm <[email protected]>
Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 14864 cylinders
Aha! Very good. You lost precisely 2^27 sectors, that is 64 GiB,
or, more relevant, 2^16 cylinders.
No surprise, since cylinders is a short.
So, the following should improve things. (Unverified, untested.)
Andries
--- hdreg.h~ Fri Jan 22 16:49:34 1999
+++ hdreg.h Mon Jan 25 23:13:06 1999
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
struct hd_geometry {
unsigned char heads;
unsigned char sectors;
- unsigned short cylinders;
+ unsigned long cylinders;
unsigned long start;
};