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On your advice I did go into fdisk and try to partition c0d2.  Strange 
thing happened.  I can't seem to create more than one partition.  I 
think the geometry is screwed up somehow. Note it would only let me 
start at block 1 and didn't ask me how large to make the partition.  It 
just grabbed it all. Any ideas how to fix that?

 /sbin/fdisk /dev/ida/c0d2

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/ida/c0d2: 1 heads, 17764320 sectors, 1 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 17764320 * 512 bytes

         Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-1, default 1):
Using default value 1

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/ida/c0d2: 1 heads, 17764320 sectors, 1 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 17764320 * 512 bytes

         Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/ida/c0d2p1             1         1   8882159+  83  Linux
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(768, 0, 32) logical=(0, 0, 17764320)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(768, 0, 32) should be (768, 0, 17764320)

Command (m for help):


Jim Lynch wrote:

> I've have an old compaq that a Windows tech added some disks to but 
> had no idea what to do to make it work on Linux.  From the dmesg 
> listing I found:
>
> Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5)
> Found 1 controller(s)
> cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2/P)
> cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=8380320
> cpqarray ida/c0d1: blksz=512 nr_blks=16768800
> cpqarray ida/c0d2: blksz=512 nr_blks=17764320
>
> It looks like he added ida/c0d2 since I have the other two drives 
> mentioned in the fstab file.  When I tried to look at one of the 
> existing drives with fdisk I found:
> Disk /dev/ida/c0d1: 1 heads, 16768800 sectors, 1 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16768800 * 512 bytes
>
>         Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/ida/c0d1p1   *         1         1   2044064   82  Linux swap
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>     phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 33)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>     phys=(500, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 4088160)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(500, 254, 32) should be (500, 0, 16768800)
> /dev/ida/c0d1p2             1         1    391680   83  Linux
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>     phys=(501, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 4088161)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
>     phys=(596, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 4871520)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(596, 254, 32) should be (596, 0, 16768800)
> /dev/ida/c0d1p3             1         1    261120   83  Linux
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>     phys=(597, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 4871521)
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
>     phys=(660, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 5393760)
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(660, 254, 32) should be (660, 0, 16768800)
> /dev/ida/c0d1p4             1         1   5687520    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>     phys=(661, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 5393761)
> Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
>     phys=(1023, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 16768800)
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(1023, 254, 32) should be (1023, 0, 16768800)
> /dev/ida/c0d1p5             1         1   5687504   83  Linux
>
> Which makes me a bit leary of using fdisk on these drives.  Most of 
> that output doesn't make sense to me.  Can anyone point me in the 
> right direction so I can learn how to format this new drive?  This is 
> a RH 7.2 system.  If I understand correctly this is a RAID system.  
> The new drive  is really 2 9 Gb drives configured as a mirror, so I 
> was told.  Is there some other utility I need to use to make sense of 
> the partitioning of the existing drives?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
>
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