[ale] USB->IDE problems

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:51, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I've got a problem when I attach a USB external drive to my 2.2.24 linux
> system.  It seems that fdisk only sees 1286MB when in fact the drive is
> 20.4
> 
> Here is FDISK output.
> 
> [cfowler at devel cfowler]$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 1286 MB, 1286062080 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 156 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             1      2482  19936633+  83  Linux
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(2481, 254, 63)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

Could this be related to the weirdness from zip disk stuff. They always
showed up as sda4. 

Check dmesg for details on what the system thinks it is connecting to.
And poke around and see if the full drive is access by another partition
number. Loads of other system use a "strange" partitioning scheme (SGI,
Sun, etc) (Full disk slice is #2 (Sun) #7 (SGI))

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