fdisk on a new hdd

[Bradley Martin]

just installed a new 80gb ata drive in my
machine--it's the slave to the existing 6gb drive.
linux seems to recognize it as i can do an fdisk on
/dev/hdb and it looks about the right size. but it
gives me this everytime i run fdisk, even if i make a
partition:

<snip>
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table,
nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in
memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course,
the previous
content won't be recoverable.


The number of cylinders for this disk is set to
155061.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger
than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions
of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
</snip>

OK, well sometimes it actually saves the partition
table and i can run fdisk and it says i have a single
80gb partition on there, but when i try to mount the
drive as ext2 or ext3 it tells me that isn't the
filesystem on there...(i set it to 83/Linux in fdisk)

help me? i've got a stack of cds waiting to hop on
this disk...



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<i am not bradley martin>

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