[lug] Cylinders and pertitioning

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:59:48AM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
>I'm installing a 20 gig drive that I'd originally used for solaris. The
>drive is set for 2491 cylinders  and I'm trying to get it back to 1024. 

Heads are limited to 63, sectors are limited to 255.  255 * 63 * 1024
equals about 8GB.  If you have a hard drive larger than 8GB, you can't
use remapping to make it show up as 1024 cyls or less.  If you need to
boot from it, create a 50MB /boot.  Once the kernel is up, it can handle
a single large partition.

Sean
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