Re: fdisk on scsi disks in 2.5.21

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 01:28:35 EST


Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> $ fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 1 heads, 35843670 sectors, 1 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 35843670 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 1 32098+ 83 Linux
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 64)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(3, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 64260)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(3, 254, 63) should be (3, 0, 35843670)
> /dev/sda2 1 1 168682+ 83 Linux
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(4, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 64261)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(24, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 401625)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(24, 254, 63) should be (24, 0, 35843670)
> ....
>
> One head, one cylinder and lots of sectors??
> I put some debug in drivers/scsi/scsicam.c and it doesn't
> seem like it was called.
>
> Is my fdisk (from RH 7.2) too old?

No please: Just please don't look at ide-scsi in 2.5.21
without applying IDE patch number 86.

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