Re: partition table: chs question

[Guest section DW]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:

> for partitions not in the first 8gb of a harddisk, what
> should the c/h/s start and end value be ?
> 
> most fdisks seem to set start and end to 255/63/1023.
> but partition magic creates partitions with start set to
> 0/1/1023 and end set to 255/63/1023, and detects a problem
> if start is set to 255/63/1023.
> 
> so, how should a partition table look like ?

Since these values will never be used you can imagine that they
are not of great interest. Do whatever you like.