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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: Installation-problems with zonebitrecording HD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.192126.12371@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <168A1C0F1.SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:21:26 GMT
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- In article <168A1C0F1.SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de> of comp.os.linux,
- SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (Hans Schligtenhorst) writes:
- > Hi everyone,
- >
- > I've got problems installing LINUX SLS 0.98pl1-37 on my new SCSI-HD.
- > Running fdiskan error-message tells me to tell the system the numbers
- > of heads, cylinders and sectors manually because it is a zonebitrecording
- > harddisk (Fujitsu M2624FA), that means, there are different numbers of sectors
- > per track. Can anybody help me?
- >
- > Adaptec 1542B SCSI-Controller
- > - Fujitsu M2624FA 520MB SCSI-HD (dunno how to fdisk :( )
-
- Set your Adaptec to simulate a certain number of sectors per track and
- tracks per cylinder (usually 16:63). Then use those values. Since SCSI
- doesn't convey drive geometry information, but BIOS requires it (yuck), you
- have to tell Linux what the BIOS believes.
-
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