<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> negative Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: Type: Direct-Access-RBC ANSI SCSI revision: 04 Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: SCSI device sdb: 2344289280 512-byte hdwr sectors (1200276 MB) Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: SCSI device sdb: 2344289280 512-byte hdwr sectors (1200276 MB) Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: sdb: sdb1 Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb Sep 28 07:19:52 frantic kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 14 [root@frantic rules.d]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 145925. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 1200.2 GB, 1200276111360 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 145925 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 145925 1172142531 83 Linux Is it wise to have a 1.2 TB partition ? No Rex Dieter wrote: <blockquote cite="midefe416$pnp$3@sea.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">John Minson wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">why do I get 2 desktop icons for my firewire harddrive ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Does it have 2 partitions? (: -- Rex </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>