Subject: Re: bin/33633: /sbin/fdisk does not work
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,>
From: Yoshito Komatsu <ykomatsu@akaumigame.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/03/2006 23:30:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/33633; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yoshito Komatsu <ykomatsu@akaumigame.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33633: /sbin/fdisk does not work
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:25:16 +0900

 David Laight wrote:
 >  The only partition entry is:
 >  
 >  >  01be  80 01 01 00 a9 b2 ff ff  3f 00 00 00 41 63 38 1d
 >  
 >  Which (as usual) starts at sector 63 and is cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1
 >  as expected.  This is enough to determine the 'sectors per track' [1], but
 >  since the end (0x3f + 0x1d386342) is beyond the CHS limit is isn't
 >  possible to determine the number of heads (and hence cylinders).
 >  
 >  At most fdisk should warn about this - so christos change is ok...
 
 I understand.
 fdisk.c revision 1.101 works for me.
 
 Thank you.