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Can anyone help me solve is problem?

I have a WD caviar and a fujitsu harddisk, both 2.1G, both >4000 cylinders.

When installing Linux Slackware 2.01Fdisk gives notice of overlaping
phisical an logical partitions,
Is this becourse Linux SW2.01 can't copy with drives larger then 500M? What
can i do about it?

Thanks for helpin' me...

mars

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Quote:>Can anyone help me solve is problem?

>I have a WD caviar and a fujitsu harddisk, both 2.1G, both >4000 cylinders.

>When installing Linux Slackware 2.01Fdisk gives notice of overlaping
>phisical an logical partitions,
>Is this becourse Linux SW2.01 can't copy with drives larger then 500M? What
>can i do about it?

>Thanks for helpin' me...

Basically, in order to get round the 540Mb limit, the BIOS has
introduced alternative addressing methods such as LBA etc. I suspect
that the BIOS and SW disagree over what the pseudo-geometry is and are
putting their cylinder breaks in different places. If you're planning to
have one OS per physical disk, just wipe the partition table and start
from scratch - it's probably easiest.
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Sometimes if you run fdisk on, say, /dev/hda instead of the correct,
say, /dev/hda1 you will get some funky values on the partition table.

I'd check to make sure that you are partitioning the correct mounted
device.

Also, since the logical partitions exist within the extended ones, you
could see a reflection of that.

Good luck.

T