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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: i386/1893: partition tables not processed correctly to guess geometry 
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:38:50 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> >	We do not know what the full impact of this bug is. Is this
> 
> It's fairly small.  max_ncyls is always wrong for drives with more
> than 1024 cylinders, so you have to enter the number of cylinders
> manually in sysinstall etc. if the drive doesn't report its size.

Unless, it is one of those where we >do< use the BIOS geometry (ST-506).

Also, sysinstall (libdisk actually) will calculate the number of 
cylinders from secperunit/heads/sect_per_track rather than trust 
the partition table.

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