Re: Partitioning Disks on DS20

["Wes Bauske" <wsb paralleldata com>]

Lucas De Lamper wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> I had the same problem on an XP1000, where fdisk didn't see cylinders behind
> 522....
> I got around it by partitioning the disk with another Unix system, although
> I understand that is not an easy option for everybody.
> A lot of people have reported RH fdisk to be broken, but I haven't seen a
> fix yet. If you have a RH5.2 hanging around you can partition your disk by
> starting the  RH5.2 install.
> (I haven't tried to replace 6.0's fdisk with 5.2's...)

That sounds a bit odd. I've partitioned 50GB disks
without a problem with my XP1000. Even my 9GB drives 
exceed 522 cylinders:

2 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   262144     2048      swap                        # (Cyl.    2 - 129)
  b: 17508352   264192      ext2                        # (Cyl.  130 - 8678)

Must be something to do with either your SCSI controller
or the disk itself.

As far as the DS20 problem, what controller are you
trying to use? I've used several different models on
my XP1000's and DS10's without trouble.


Wes