Re: Gentoo Linux BUG 18612 - cfdisk

From: Daniel Egger (degger@fhm.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 10:16:02 EST


Am Don, 2003-04-03 um 19.11 schrieb Brandon Low:

> This bug appears to be caused by using cfdisk's default allocation on
> the last partition on a drive. From the looks of it on the user's LBA
> mapped drive, cfdisk allocated a bunch of non-existant sectors when
> the user allowed it to pick the default size for that last partition.

Actually I've seen several CFs fail when used in LBA mode, not just
those partitioned with cfdisk. I claim there's either a problem of
the manufacturers taking commands with LBAs or some driver problem
on the linux to address the CFs correctly.

Anyway, I see this as rather minor; drop down to CHS in BIOS and
everything works fine (here at least).

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel


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