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* fdisk doesn't know # of cylinders w/ 2.4.15pre2
@ 2001-11-13  2:01 Steven N. Hirsch
  2001-11-13  7:24 ` Guest section DW
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Steven N. Hirsch @ 2001-11-13  2:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

I haven't seen any other reports of this, but fdisk is suddenly unable to 
figure out the geometry of unpartitioned SCSI drives with 2.4.15pre2!  It 
comes up complaining that the number of cylinders must be set at the 
expert menu.

If I reboot with 2.4.10-ac12 it works as it always did; assuming a 
reasonable geometry and permitting me to partition the disk.  Once 
partitioned, it IS recognized correctly by the newer kernel.

Quite repeatable.

Steve



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* Re: fdisk doesn't know # of cylinders w/ 2.4.15pre2
  2001-11-13  2:01 fdisk doesn't know # of cylinders w/ 2.4.15pre2 Steven N. Hirsch
@ 2001-11-13  7:24 ` Guest section DW
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Guest section DW @ 2001-11-13  7:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven N. Hirsch, linux-kernel

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:01:58PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> I haven't seen any other reports of this, but fdisk is suddenly unable to 
> figure out the geometry of unpartitioned SCSI drives with 2.4.15pre2!

Yes, broken in 2.4.15pre2, fixed in 2.4.15pre3.

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