Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2048 bytes/sector media in 2.2.12 | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:07:37 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So now that 2.2 is out, he wants me to upgrade to 2.2 (I also noted that > apparently the partitioning in 2.1 counts the sectors as if they were > all 512 bytes long, leaving the values all multiplied by 4. Is this > correct?). However, when I went to re-partition the drive under 2.2.12, I
It is for M/O disks and removable media. FOr hard disks I dont know.
> > fdisk -b 2048 /dev/sda > ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 2048-char blocks implemented (1024)
Your fdisk tried to issue a small write to a large media device. Can you strace that bit of it
Alan
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