Ahah, 4096 blocksize disk is not recognised under Linux?

[Kulwant B. <kul...@bt...>]

Hello, 

I think these funny format disks of mine are the reason for the non
detection. I suddenly discovered that there are many more menu selections in
the Linux Installer and discovered a menu item called "List Partitions" (or
something like that) and this is what it returned: 

Partitions list

The following partitions have been detected: 

Device        Mounted On            Type
/dev/sda1    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sda2    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sda3    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sda4    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sda5    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sda6    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sda7    --Not mounted--    FFS

Disk /dev/sdb has no partitons defined
Disk /dev/sdc has no partitions defined

/dev/sdd1    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sdd2    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sdd3    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sdd4    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/sdd5    --Not mounted--    FFS

/dev/hda1    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/hda2    --Not mounted--    FFS
/dev/hda3    --Not mounted--    FFS

where:

sda is a Compaq 18Gb with a 512 blocksize
sdb is a Seagate Baracudda 4.8Gb with a 4096 blocksize
sdc is a Seagate Baracudda 4.8Gb with a 4096 blocksize
sdd is a Compaq 9Gb with a 512blocksize and
hda is a Connor 420Mb with a 512 blocksize

And all of the disks have a number of partitions each. 

sdc is the drive I have set up the Linux partitions on. 

All the SCSI drives are second hand and the Seagates came with the 4096
blocksize and no Amiga program has been able to low level format them with a
512 blocksize. Only a Seagate tool (which runs on PC only) is available for
this job apparently. 

Given that the only spare space I have is on the 18Gb Compaq drive, is it
safe to set up the Linux partitions on this drive? I don't want to risk
anything because I remember that Shapeshifter (Macintosh Emulator) destoyed
some partitions trying to initialise a Mac partition on a >4Gb disk of mine
once. 

I am running OS3.9 but suspect that the patches to handle >4Gb disks are not
active once Linux is booted?

Kind regards, 

Kulwant