Re: [TCLUG:6684] partition maps, cylinders, etc.

[Michael Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

> I just moved a hard drive out of a Mac into a PC, which I know have
> different partition maps. While partitioning it for Linux, fdisk complains
> that the number of cylinders is set to 3969, which (it says) is a problem
> because it's larger than 1024. What's the appropriate number of cylinders
> for this disk? Any other gotchas? It's a WD 1.6G drive; Linux will be the
> only thing on it. Thanks --

It shouldn't be a problem if the hard drive is going to be Linux-only..  I
believe the error is just to notify you of potential problems with DOS and/or
Windows..

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