From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 16 17: 6:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx03.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx03.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8433D37B407; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.217.145.63] (HELO there) by dc-mx03.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with SMTP id 27375458; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 20:06:10 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Uhring To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Hans Lambermont Subject: Re: fdisk seems broken for slices above cyl 1023 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 19:06:13 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <20020616232401.C91106@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> <20020616233233.GC56375@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020616233233.GC56375@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 16 June 2002 06:32 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Yes, correct. fdisk truncates the cylinder number to 10 bits. I > looked at the code a couple of days ago, but it's such a mess that > the best thing to do would be to throw it away and start again, > possibly importing something from NetBSD or OpenBSD. The fdisk utility from both NetBSD and OpenBSD have been unable to=20 recognize any drive larger than 1024 cylinders in my experience. I=20 would recommend you use them before importing any of their code. The only fdisk utility which I have found to work consistently well=20 with large drives is the one used in the Linux distros. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message