On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 11:59, Richard Heldmann wrote: > Fedora FC2's hardware browser identifies my controller as an Intel > 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage controller. > > The sfdisk -l command when run as root returns: > > > Disk /dev/sda: 14589 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 0+ 4 5- 40131 6 FAT16 > /dev/sda2 * 5 12038 12034 96663105 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 12039 12051 13 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 12052 14588 2537 20378452+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 12052+ 14458 2407- 19334196 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 14459+ 14588 130- 1044193+ 82 Linux swap > Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than > the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless. > [Use the --force option if you really want this] > > Why are the devices listed as sda and not hda? Should I correct it and how? Is the warning a problem? > > Thanks, > Richard > Booting Knoppix 3.6 yields: knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ su - root@ttyp0[~]# sfdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 248 cylinders, 32 heads, 32 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 524288 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 247 248- 126960 6 FAT16 /dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Disk /dev/hda: 14589 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 4 5- 40131 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 * 5 12038 12034 96663105 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 12039 12051 13 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 12052 14588 2537 20378452+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 12052+ 14458 2407- 19334196 83 Linux /dev/hda6 14459+ 14588 130- 1044193+ 82 Linux swap No warnings. How do I reconcile this? Or correct it? Thanks, Richard
