Hi,

I create some partitions with fdisk and specified the sizes as +3072M and
+4096M, which should be3 and 4GB, but when I use a disk init with the same
sizes, I get the following error in ASE:

basis_dsizecheck: attempt to write page 1535999 on device '/dev/raw/raw1'
failed, system error is: No such device or address

Even if I use 3000M when using disk init, I still get the error. When I use
smaller number such as 2800M, it works.

Why do I loose so much space?

How can I do the math and properly partition these drives?

Thanks

Germano wrote:
usually fdisk works at a cylinder level - depends on how the vendor
implements it. Likely you are getting caught by the disk vendor's
intreptation that 1MB=1000KB instead of 1024KB - whereas Sybase uses
1MB=1024KB.