On 04/08/2010 06:02 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
For unknown reasons these drive report themselves as 512-byte drives despite using 4096-byte sectors internally.
ouch.
However, recent fdisk/parted will align on a 1MB boundary by default which happens do the trick in this particular case
Alexander> 1 Primary 0 3907024064 63 3907024065 Linux (83) None Alexander> alex@hal:~$
No, you should shift the start sector using the fdisk's advanced menu.
I created this partition table using cfdisk (util-linux 2.17 from debian/experimental). I guess even that is too old?
I now re-created the partition table using fdisk from util-linux-ng git and got this: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 765633 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x2afff6d1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 3907029167 1953513560 83 Linux but: $ sudo cfdisk -P s /dev/sdb FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder bug? thanks for the help, Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
