On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 06:14:10PM -0700, nate wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout said: > > [Please CC any replies. I'm subscribed to other debian lists, but not > > this one] > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to partition a 160GB disk on potato with kernel 2.4.17. Both > > fdisk and cfdisk die with SIGXFSZ. Even dd is getting killed after 4GB. > > Did potato really have no large file support? Why is it that I've never > > noticed before? I've been using 2.2 kernels for a long time before this. > > what kind of disk and what controller? is it a single IDE disk? if > so you may need a patch for 48-bit IDE addressing.
Thanks but it's a hardware RAID controller that appears as a SCSI disk. It's /dev/sda that I'm trying to partition. If i do only primary partitions it works fine because then cfdisk doesn't need to seek so much. > I have partitioned/formatted 220GB disks (6x80GB in raid10 connected > to a 3ware raid card) without any trouble under debian potato/2.2.19, > it should work fine under 2.4.x, I am thinking its an addressing problem > though. Hehe, this is a 3ware raid card also yet the partitioning is being problematic. I don't understand it. Maybe I should just stick to 4 partitions :). -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary > arithmetic and those that can't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
