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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I took the 1.9GB which DOS thought was 503MB and linux thought had 1496 
cylinders to a friend who attacked it with Ontrack Disk Manager (a version 
not specific to any particular drive).  He changed the numbers around so 
cylinders x tracks x head still came out right but cylinders was not 1496 
but rather 973 so that DOS could find them all.  He deleted the linux 
partitions and made DOS partitions.

I went it with BL3 fdisk and it was all messed up again.  I deleted the 
DOS partitions, which did not occupy the whole disk) and made a 200MB 
linux primary partition  (200M) but it became 400MB, so I told it 100MB 
and it made a 200MB partition.  Something to do with the numbers having 
changed.

Anyway, BL3 busybox fdisk is a nice tool but it is not appropriate for 
repartitioning a drive that has been low-level formatted due to DDO if you 
want it to behave in DOS, which cannot handle over 1024 cylinders.  My 
friend said it was also messed up in linux and would not have worked for 
linux but he may be wrong.  Now it works in both OS'es.

Is there a free linux disk manager - perhaps 'partition manager' - that 
could handle this job?

I am trading in my 1.2G DOS drive which DOS programs think is 503MB but 
which linux fdisk formatted to 1.2G of DOS partitions, which has stopped 
working properly twice and fixed itself one of those times, for a 1.2G 
which has no traces of EZ-DRIVE or other DDO on it, after I copy over the 
software.


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org