[aclug-L] 5.7 meg /dev/hdd

[Phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

my wife just added a new harddrive to her computer.  it's a 5.7 gb
maxtor diamondmax
cfdisk tells me that it is readonly.
fdisk will run but says
    " you will not be able to write to the partition table.
        you must set heads sectors and cylinders.
        you can do this from the extra functions menu."

if i go into extra and cylinders i get "number of sylinders
(1-[0]-65535)"

if i go into extra and sectors i get    "number of sectors (1-[0]-63)"

if i go into extra and heads i get       "number of heads (1-[0]-256)"

are these values total for the drive or are they the ranges for the
partitions?


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