New subject: [suse-security] fdisk fails with disks >32GB: no RAID

11 Jul 2000

      Hello,

I have to set up a backup server with software RAID 5 on three Maxtor IDE
60GB discs
with SUSE Linux 6.4. (2.2.14). Raidtools are installed.

Problem:
    fdisk displays only 53000 cylinders. That seems to be "cylinders modulo
65536".
    checking startup messages and /proc shows correct parameters for all
three drives.

I know, IDE is slow, but the important point is security of large data, not
speed.
Does anyone know a quick solution (newest beta-kernel would do fdisk right,
but is very unstable!)

Thanks for all help,
Bernhard

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