Re: Problems with EIDE driver (I think)

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:54:13 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, James MacLean wrote:

> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 14, 17) should be (1023, 15, 63)
> /dev/hda4 1024 726 1058 167407+ 83 Linux native
> Partition 4 does not start on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 14, 17) should be (1023, 0, 1)
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1023, 14, 17) should be (1023, 15, 63)
>
> Somehow fdisk has allocated 1065880 sectors on a disk with only 1065456
> sectors.That is the problem.

I've got similar problems on large SCSI disks that were formatted on a
AHA-1740 and then moved to a NCR 53c810. I just did the math and was a bit
displeased to see that I'm using 173 sectors more than the NCR thinks are
there. I assume "bad things" will happen when I get close to filling the
last partition on the disk. How did this happen? Is
backup/repartition/restore the only solution?

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