Hi, I'm trying to put a 120GB ATA drive im my ultra 10 running stable with a 2.4.19 kernel
A probe-ide shows correctly the drive. The kernel seems to be able to read the geometry as shown below : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/model Maxtor 6Y120L0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry physical 238216/16/63 logical 238216/16/63 But fdisk doesn't want to let me specify a custom geometry (typing ? doesn't do anything) : thething:/home/nath# fdisk -v fdisk v2.11n thething:/home/nath# fdisk /dev/hdc [...] Command (m for help): s Building a new sun disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. [...] Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ? Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): ? Select type (? for auto, 0 for custom): 0 Heads (1-1024, default 16): 16 Sectors/track (1-1024, default 63): 63 Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606): 238216 Value out of range. Cylinders (1-65535, default 41606): I understand that 238216 > 65535 and that fdisk can't really accept 238216 as an answer :) but how could I partitionate my hard drive ? If I use the values given by fdisk, I end with a 20GB-like partition scheme, while I'd like to be able to fill up all those GBs :) Thanks in advance, Nathanaƫl Camelot -- mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]