Re: Kernel and BIOS doesnt give same info about IDE disks here

From: Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 12:33:27 EST

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:10:50PM +0100, alberto.rodriguez@nullzone.org wrote:

> server01:/home2# lilo
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81
> fn 08: 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
> fn 48: 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x84
> fn 08: 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
> fn 48: 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
> Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device
> 0x80
> Kernel: 5086 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
> BIOS: 635 cylinders, 128 heads, 63 sectors
>
> any idea?
> need more info?

Nothing is wrong.
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