parted malfunctioning on an older disk ? 500Mo limit related ?

[Sven Luther]

Hello,

I need some help with the debian bugreport found at :

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228870

Main point are :

The harddisk is an old quantum fireball, with caracterstics of :

  The hard disk is seen by the BIOS with these characteristics:
  Quantum Fireball_tm2110A
  Capacity: 2112 MB
  Cylinder  4092
  Head      16
  Precomp    0
  Landing zone 4091
  Sector 63

The kernel declares it as : 

  hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2110A, ATA DISK drive
  hda: attached ide-disk driver
  hda: 4124736 sectors (2112 MB) w/76KiB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63, DMA

But parted doesn't like it because of :

  Using /dev/ide/host0...
  No implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.
  Need to add support for this.
  Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/...
  is 4092/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M

This was after having added a two partitions (cyl 1 to 496 and cyl 497
to end_of_disk) with the debian-installer stuff.

Friendly,

Sven Luther