Hi! I fully concur with Andries; You have nothing to worry about. If You feel uncomforatble about the Linux fdisk comments, and You intend to install a new Linux system on it, the removal and recreation of the exsisting partition will fix this, adjusting the partiton-table to match the read geometry of the disk. Happy hacking, Henrik J. On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Guest section DW wrote: > From: De Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So I take the SCSI disk to work and hang it on > a working scsi bus there (Adaptect ctrlr). I take > a look at the partition table and it looks terminally > weird: > > Oh, not at all - it is in excellent shape. > First of all, note the Id's: 83 Linux native > not some random value. This means that the disk is fine > and the SCSI controller is reading it fine. > > What about the geometry complaints? > Well, you see, the SCSI controller you used to read it > uses a geometry with 255 heads, 63 sectors, while the > partition table was written on a SCSI controller that > uses 66 heads , 63 sectors. Thus, this first partition > ends after precisely 32 cylinders. > > Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 263 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sdc1 * 1 9 66496+ 83 Linux native > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(31, 65, 63) logical=(8, 71, 63) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(31, 65, 63) should be (31, 254, 63) > > I don't like the look of that. > > You are needlessly afraid. A perfect disk, it will work fine > with Linux. > > Andries > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
