Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 23:24:17 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does sysinstall still limits cylinders to 65535? Message-ID: <20080526062417.GA61084@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0805251952uffce552ycaf7941eb81a8601@mail.gmail.com> References: <e71790db0805251952uffce552ycaf7941eb81a8601@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:52:06PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > I have been struglling with sysinstall, attempting to make it handle > the geometry of some large SATA drives. After a lot of effort I > decided to stop suffering and modified the program in order to > circumvent the outdated limit of 65535 cylinders (see attached patch). > I'm thinking about submitting a PR with a change request but I'd like > to get some additional opinions first. I did not test it in "batch" > mode, so it would be great if any kind soul did this. Carlos, bottom line is to simply ignore the geometry warning you see. For others... This is just added evidence that the humongous warning spit out during sysinstall's fdisk is confusing users (many taking it very seriously when there's really no problem at all). I think this is the third time someone's brought this up in the past couple months... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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