Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:13:51 -0600 | From | Brandon Low <> | Subject | Re: Gentoo Linux BUG 18612 - cfdisk |
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On Fri, 04/04/03 at 02:02:28 +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:11:48AM -0600, Brandon Low wrote: > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18612 > > > > This bug appears to be caused by using cfdisk's default allocation > > on the last partition on a drive. From the looks of it on the user's > > LBA mapped drive, cfdisk allocated a bunch of non-existant sectors > > when the user allowed it to pick the default size for that last partition. > > (please break lines)
Heh, sorry about that. > > (in case something is wrong with cfdisk, tell the cfdisk maintainer, > not the kernel list) > > (what kernel version is this? - I see, 2.4.20) > It is indeed 2.4.20 in the report.
> According to WD, this disk has 78,165,360 sectors. > So, in case it was partitioned with such a size maybe nothing was wrong. > > The boot messages shown say: > kenny kernel: hda: setmax LBA 78165360, native 78125000 > How come setmax has the right value and native has not? > Did other software clip the disk? > What is the identify data for this drive?
Interesting, I wonder why stock 2.4.20 would report it differently than the new IDE stuff that is in our kernel, as that seems to be the problem. > > Was the partitioning done with a kernel that had CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE > enabled?
Haven't heard of that option, I'll check with the bug reporter. > > > Andries > Thanks a lot for the reply, it has at least helped us much to narrow things down.
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