thanks for your answer and tip i get the following message:
cfdisk -z /dev/sdb FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size Press any key to exit cfdisk any other ideas or tip's? thanks, christian Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 21:21 schrieb Anders Breindahl: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 09:52, christian gattermair wrote: > > i use debian sarge with 2.6.8-2-686-smp and like to use an raid device > > (sda) with 3 TB. > > > > i have read in the internet and found that there is an kernel feature > > called LBD. it is activated > > > > cfdisk /dev/sda > > FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size > > > > fdisk /dev/sda > > You must set cylinders. > > You can do this from the extra functions menu. > > Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by > > w(rite) > > - snip - > > > kernel: sda : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). > > kernel: SCSI device sda: 6445080576 512-byte hdwr sectors (3299881 MB) > > kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back, no read (daft) > > kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p > > > > thx 4 any hint or tip > > It is only a vague hint, but if you're unafraid to loose data on the > device, you could try repartitioning the disk with cfdisk's ``-z''-option. > This will start cfdisk with an empty partition table, and thereby hopfully > working around cfdisk's inability to detect the size of the disk. > > If you dare, how are the results? > Regards, Anders Breindahl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
