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Large Disk HOWTO
Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl
v2.2x, 30 Aug 2001
All about disk geometry and the 1024 cylinder limit for disks.
For the most recent version of this text, see www.win.tue.nl.
1. The problem
2. Summary
3. Units and Sizes
4. Disk Access
5. Booting
- 5.1 LILO and the `lba32' and `linear' options
- 5.2 A LILO bug
- 5.3 1024 cylinders is not 1024 cylinders
- 5.4 No 1024 cylinder limit on old machines with IDE
6. Disk geometry, partitions and `overlap'
7. Translation and Disk Managers
8. Kernel disk translation for IDE disks
9. Consequences
10. Details
11. The Linux IDE 8 GiB limit
- 11.1 BIOS complications
- 11.2 Jumpers that select the number of heads
- 11.3 Jumpers that clip total capacity
12. The Linux 65535 cylinder limit
13. Extended and logical partitions
14. Problem solving
- 14.1 Problem: My IDE disk gets a bad geometry when I boot from SCSI.
- 14.2 Nonproblem: Identical disks have different geometry?
- 14.3 Nonproblem: fdisk sees much more room than df?
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