On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 08:10:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I got me a new IBM 40 GB hard disk. > I tried atari-fdisk, and it told me that there is a gap of roughly 7 GB that cannot >be used for partitions!? > In detail: > 1..14418140 > gap > 28967336..80418239 > > I tried several things until I went to expert mode and deletet bad sector list.
strange. Did you use mkpart before? > Then everything was OK. > Now my question: > Is it OK to delete it? What is / was it good for? > How come that a new hard disk (never used before) has it? it could have been created by accident. Another possibility, atari partitioning scheme has extremely little information (redundancy) to tell valid partitioned disk apart from garbage, Maybe some garbage present on the disk was misinterpreted. In any case it is safe to delete this, 'dd </dev/zero count=1 >/dev/hdX' might be a good idea. Richard
