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Re: Passing geometry to parted on a floppy
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Passing geometry to parted on a floppy |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:04:12 +1000 |
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:06:41PM -0500, Mike Oliver wrote:
> > Unless you have an old machine (>5 years?), you probably don't need
> > to worry. Try setting the LBA flag on your FAT partitions, and
> > see if Windows breaks.
>
> 5 years is probably close to what it is. It's a Pentium II MMX at
> 266 MHz (the machine is just a stopgap until I can buy a new
> mobo/processor and rebuild my broken machine).
I think it will be OK. (Sounds like a top-of-the-range from 5 years
ago... ;)
> I don't know how to set the LBA flag. Nothing in the parted
> docs (version 1.2.11) tells me how to do this,
You need a newer version of Parted. "set 1 lba on", IIRC.
> If my BIOS is too old to support LBA then presumably it will just
> ignore the flag, so it shouldn't break anything, right?
No. The flag isn't to tell your BIOS anything. It's to tell Windows.
If Windows works, then you're set :) If it doesn't, then you need
to set lba off, and start thinking about CHS.
> My linux install disks are Mandrake 8.1 (or maybe 8.2); I could try
> DiskDrake, but does it safely resize FAT16/VFAT partitions? Especially
> if there's a question about whether Linux is reading the geometry
> right?
DiskDrake faces the same issues. I believe it doesn't do anything
differently in this regard.
> Did I join the wrong mailing list? I subscribed to bug-parted
> but saw your reply only from the cc.
Odd... you should have received it from the list as well. Perhaps
delivery was delayed? (Got it yet?)
Cheers,
Andrew