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From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: aj@dungeon.inka.de (Andreas Jellinghaus), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partition table: chs question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:47:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010225224729.A16353@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010225163534.A12566@dungeon.inka.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010225163534.A12566@dungeon.inka.de>; from Andreas Jellinghaus on Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:35:34PM +0100

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> for partitions not in the first 8gb of a harddisk, what
> should the c/h/s start and end value be ?
> 
> most fdisks seem to set start and end to 255/63/1023.
> but partition magic creates partitions with start set to
> 0/1/1023 and end set to 255/63/1023, and detects a problem
> if start is set to 255/63/1023.
> 
> so, how should a partition table look like ?

Since these values will never be used you can imagine that they
are not of great interest. Do whatever you like.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-25 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-25 15:35 partition table: chs question Andreas Jellinghaus
2001-02-25 21:15 ` Tim Moore
2001-02-25 21:47 ` Guest section DW [this message]
2001-02-26  0:02   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-26  1:59     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-26 18:22       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-26 17:32         ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-26 17:42           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-26  3:11     ` Guest section DW
2001-02-26 18:24       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-26 20:11         ` Guest section DW
2001-02-26 20:43           ` Jeff V. Merkey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-26  0:04 Jeff V. Merkey

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