Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:09:37 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | (Guest section DW) | | Subject | Re: Magneto Optical ATAPI (IDE) disk, Fujitsu, 2048 Bytes/sector |
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From: Alan Watson <AlanWatson@flysaa.com>
... it's a 2048 bytes/sector device, and Linux doesn't like that at all. Early in the initialisation of the driver, it tries to send a 1 KByte request to the device, and there's a check in the driver that essentially checks that the request size is a multiple of the block size. And it's not - it's a fraction of it.
What can I do?
Maybe tell us what kernel version you are talking about? I think 2048 bytes/sector devices work reasonably well with recent kernels.
Once things go well at boot time, and you come to partitioning, don't forget the -b 2048 flag to fdisk.
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