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On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 22:54, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:51, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > I've got a problem when I attach a USB external drive to my 2.2.24 linux
> > system.  It seems that fdisk only sees 1286MB when in fact the drive is
> > 20.4
> > 
> > Here is FDISK output.
> > 
> > [cfowler at devel cfowler]$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
> > 
> > Command (m for help): p
> > 
> > Disk /dev/sda: 1286 MB, 1286062080 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 156 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1             1      2482  19936633+  83  Linux
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> >      phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(2481, 254, 63)
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> Could this be related to the weirdness from zip disk stuff. They always
> showed up as sda4. 
> 
> Check dmesg for details on what the system thinks it is connecting to.
> And poke around and see if the full drive is access by another partition
> number. Loads of other system use a "strange" partitioning scheme (SGI,
> Sun, etc) (Full disk slice is #2 (Sun) #7 (SGI))
> 
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