Hello Friends,
I recently got a new sata 80Gb hrddrv and installed rh9 and winxp on it.
I came across a peculiar problem which I wanted to share with you and
find an answer. The drive's specs as reported by linux were:
Disk /dev/hde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 516096 bytes
I partitioned the drv and installed linux with one primary reserved for
XP. Installing xp was a problem as it did not recognize the partition
made for it. Ultimately I had to remove all partitions and let xp create
the partition table. Xp changed the drv specs to:
Disk /dev/hde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
The problem was with the number of heads. It seems xp and dos need the
no. of heads to be always 255. The reason I am stating this here was
that sfdisk reports ( No. of Heads * No. of Sectors * 512 does not
divide the total bytes evenly ) that the extended partition does not
start at cylinder boundary and linux and dos will interpret the partition
differently.
Is there a way out where the partitioning scheme is acceptable to both
linux and xp Or should I ignore this warning?
Thanks!
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