Hi everyone, I just got a Quantum 10 Gig drive and because my bios only sees it as eight meg I need to use a drive manager program to correct it. I need to do this cause i dual boot windows to play games when I get frustrated with Linux :) The boot message shows this first hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A, 9787MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63 then lower down it shows this hda: [DM6:DDO] [remap +63] [-1072536478/64/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda3 Cfdisk gives me this info cfdisk 2.9z Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 10262536704 bytes Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 1247 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hda3 Boot Primary Linux ext2 8.23 Primary Free Space 0.04* hda1 Primary Hidden FAT16 1077.48* hda5 Logical Win95 FAT32 5083.23 hda6 Logical Linux swap 106.93 hda7 Logical Linux ext2 3981.04 and fdisk tells me i have errors ie Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 25698 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 5 526 1052226 16 Hidden FAT16 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(131, 254, 63) should be (131, 63, 63) /dev/hda2 526 4969 8956237+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 63, 63) /dev/hda3 * 1 4 8001 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 254, 63) should be (0, 63, 63) /dev/hda5 526 2989 4964053+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 2989 3041 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 3041 4969 3887698+ 83 Linux Should I be worried about this? Everything seems to be working ok but i don't want things to stuff up later on. Thanks, Glenn -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Hi everyone, I just got a Quantum 10 Gig drive and because my bios only sees it as eight meg I need to use a drive manager program to correct it.
I need to do this cause i dual boot windows to play games when I get frustrated with Linux :) The boot message shows this first hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A, 9787MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63 then lower down it shows this hda: [DM6:DDO] [remap +63] [-1072536478/64/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda3
Cfdisk gives me this info cfdisk 2.9z
Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 10262536704 bytes Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 1247
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hda3 Boot Primary Linux ext2 8.23 Primary Free Space 0.04* hda1 Primary Hidden FAT16 1077.48* hda5 Logical Win95 FAT32 5083.23 hda6 Logical Linux swap 106.93 hda7 Logical Linux ext2 3981.04
and fdisk tells me i have errors ie Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 25698 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 5 526 1052226 16 Hidden FAT16 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(131, 254, 63) should be (131, 63, 63) /dev/hda2 526 4969 8956237+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 63, 63) /dev/hda3 * 1 4 8001 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 254, 63) should be (0, 63, 63) /dev/hda5 526 2989 4964053+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 2989 3041 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 3041 4969 3887698+ 83 Linux
This partion table doesn't look right to me. If the first partition ends on 2989 then the next should start on 2990, etc. At least mine does. JLK
Should I be worried about this? Everything seems to be working ok but i don't want things to stuff up later on.
Thanks, Glenn
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Glenn Pedersen wrote:
Hi everyone, I just got a Quantum 10 Gig drive and because my bios only sees it as eight meg I need to use a drive manager program to correct it.
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 5 526 1052226 16 Hidden FAT16 Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(131, 254, 63) should be (131, 63, 63) /dev/hda2 526 4969 8956237+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 254, 63) should be (1023, 63, 63) /dev/hda3 * 1 4 8001 83 Linux Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 254, 63) should be (0, 63, 63) /dev/hda5 526 2989 4964053+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 2989 3041 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 3041 4969 3887698+ 83 Linux
Should I be worried about this? Everything seems to be working ok but i don't want things to stuff up later on.
Yes you should be worried. It looks like you used M$ to fdisk your drive and your partitions are overlapping. I had this happen once on 2 partitions and it wreaked havoc on the files that got stuck there. I would strongly suggest re-partitioning the drive with M$ for it's stuff and then YAST for Linux stuff. -- Bob F EMail FBob@wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Thanks everyone for your assistance. Ill back my data on the 4 gig i have and repartition the same way i have but not using the drive manager. Btw I had the drive partitioned up this way which should still work without the drive manager. 8meg at the start for /boot 1 gig primary the rest as logical 5 gig logical for windows 4 gig logical for Linux Glenn -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Glenn Pedersen (glennped@globalfreeway.com.au) [20000327 04:03]:
Hi everyone, I just got a Quantum 10 Gig drive and because my bios only sees it as eight meg I need to use a drive manager program to correct it.
First of all, try and see if you really can't get an updated BIOS for your mobo. At least ASUS even supplies EPROMs for older 486 boards. Check out your mobo manufacturers web page for whether a BIOS with support for more than 8 gig is available. If you are lucky and it exists, updating your BIOS and getting rid of DM is by far the superior solution. Getting rid of DM would of cause necessitate backing up your data as a repartitioning would be required.
I need to do this cause i dual boot windows to play games when I get frustrated with Linux :)
The boot message shows this first hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A, 9787MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63 then lower down it shows this hda: [DM6:DDO] [remap +63] [-1072536478/64/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda3
Yep, here the kernel detects that DM is in action and reacts accordingly .
Cfdisk gives me this info cfdisk 2.9z
and fdisk tells me i have errors ie
Should I be worried about this? Everything seems to be working ok but i don't want things to stuff up later on.
Let me quote from the fdisk man page:
There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its
problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk,
fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful program
that has strict requirements on the partition tables it
accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use
it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy
things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results.
Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD
disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it
if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only - the user inter
I guess this speaks for itself :) The only drawback is, that at least up to
6.4, YaST1 and YaST2 use fdisk under the cover and I don't know if the fact
that fdisk gets confused will present problems.
Just keep in mind that you will have to do repartitioning at the moment you
drop DM, e.g. when you decide to upgrade the mobo.
Philipp
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Glenn Pedersen wrote:
Hi everyone, I just got a Quantum 10 Gig drive and because my bios only sees it as eight meg I need to use a drive manager program to correct it.
I need to do this cause i dual boot windows to play games when I get frustrated with Linux :)
I seriously doubt that you need to use a drive manager. And someone else already mentioned that you appear to have overlapping partitions, which means you'll probably have to trash and reinstall everything to clean up. (Back up anything you can manage to back up, that you need to keep, first.) First, I hope that the BIOS sees 8 gig, not 8 meg. Next go into YAST (not YAST2) and get to the disk partitioning process. Delete all existing partitions. Allocate one partition of about 5-10 megabytes right at the front of the disk. Yes, in this case, I meant megabytes, you really do need a tiny partition here.. Do not put the rest of the disk in ANY partition. Once that is allocated and you've exited from the partitioning process, turn off the computer. When you turn it back on, install Windows. Don't worry about the portion of the drive that isn't recognised. Just ignore it and install Windows. Once that is complete, then go back to installing Linux using YAST. That tiny partition you allocated must be bound into the file system as /boot. What you do with the rest of it is up to you. This way you should be able to use the entire disk with no problem and no special boot-manager program. See, Linux, once it's booted, doesn't care about what the BIOS sees of the disk. It ignores the BIOS. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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