On 06/02/09 13:48, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On 06/02/09 07:10, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>> Ok, I wiped mbr and made fdisk create a new one: >>> >>> Disk /dev/sdb: 2055 MB, 2055208960 bytes >>> 64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Equally weird. The only "standard" ones are 64 heads, 32 sectors and >> 255 heads, 63 sectors. > > Shouldn't fdisk guess these values automagically? > And, more importantly, who are we going to blame if it doesn't? ;-) For the record, GNU parted gets it right: bernie@giskard:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb ^C5017+0 records in 5017+0 records out 2568704 bytes (2.6 MB) copied, 1.63415 s, 1.6 MB/s 130!bernie@giskard:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 1.8.8 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel New disk label type? msdos (parted) unit chs (parted) print Model: USB DISK 2.0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 249,220,34 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 249,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB. Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Type File system Flags (parted) mkpart File system type? [ext2]? fat32 Start? 0 End? 100% Warning: You requested a partition from 0,0,0 to 249,220,34. The closest location we can manage is 0,1,0 to 248,254,62. Is this still acceptable to you? Yes/No? y (parted) p Model: USB DISK 2.0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 249,220,34 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 249,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB. Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Type File system Flags 1 0,1,0 248,254,62 primary lba -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
