> On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Mike Epstein wrote:
>
> > device sda", but fdisk will not take a number of sectors above 63. (Heads
> > >Sectors per Track
> > > 95 to 177
>
> I, too, had this problem. and the problem is with linux's fdisk utility.
> Namely, it sucks. It has no capability of writing >63 sectors/track (and
> the other limitations you stated). This REALLY needs to be fixed with
> today's bigger drives. I had to partition my HD on my roomate's NT
> system. Once partitioned, and the info is written, linux's fdisk will
> work to set ID types.
>
Have you used cfdisk? I belive it fixes this problem, but I am not sure.
josh
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