On 2010-03-09 17:51:42 +0000, Darryl Miles wrote: > The 8Gb limit comes from the C/H/S geometry returned by comBIOS for my > flash being 1946 cylinders, 255 heads, 63, sectors. This is larger than > the 1024 cylinder limit. > > That limit for the C/H/S range of 0/0/1 to 1023/254/63 is 1024*255*63 > sectors or 8225280 KiB or 8032.5 MiB or 7.8442 GiB or 8.422 Gb. So as > flash maybe rated in Gb not GiB it needs to be larger than 8 Gb to be > relevant. > > I do not have smaller CF cards to test and see what C/H/S geometry > net5501 returns for say a 4Gb or 2Gb or 1Gb flash card.
Here is the output of fdisk from a 4GB SanDisk Extreme IV in a net5501:
Disk /dev/hda: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 499 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00094858
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 471 3783276 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 472 499 224910 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 472 499 224878+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
It boots from grub. I'm not sure whether it has BIOS version 1.33 or
1.33c (can I check this from a running linux system?, but I don't think
I upgraded it.
hp
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