From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
Subject: Re: fdisk on scsi disks in 2.5.21
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:28:35 +0200
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To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
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Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> $ fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 1 heads, 35843670 sectors, 1 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 35843670 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         1         1     32098+  83  Linux
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 64)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(3, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 64260)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(3, 254, 63) should be (3, 0, 35843670)
> /dev/sda2             1         1    168682+  83  Linux
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(4, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 64261)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(24, 254, 63) logical=(0, 0, 401625)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(24, 254, 63) should be (24, 0, 35843670)
> ....
> 
> One head, one cylinder and lots of sectors??
> I put some debug in drivers/scsi/scsicam.c and it doesn't
> seem like it was called.
> 
> Is my fdisk (from RH 7.2) too old?

No please: Just please don't look at ide-scsi in 2.5.21
without applying IDE  patch number 86.