Re: 63 sectors

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

David Mair wrote:
> A solution used on another platform I'm familiar with is for the 
> platform's storage drivers to report disk geometry as having have 32 
> sectors per track. The native partitioning tool will then always 
> create partitions with 32 sector alignment. It's possible a BIOS 
> change could be made to achieve that.
>

I tried 60 sectors per track, but Windows saw the disk as an 8GB disk 
and refused to format.  Linux had similar problems.

>> Does anybody know if scsi will have the same problems?  Can anyone 
>> suggest other workarounds?
>
> If you are using a guest platform like linux and don't need multiple 
> file systems on the same [virtual] disk then just format the whole 
> disk rather than partition it:
>
> # mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb
>
> (instead of /dev/sdb1, 2, 3, etc)

That won't work with the installers (at least not simply), and doesn't 
allow for a swap partition.


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