hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL HEADS?

Erick Kinnee (ekinnee1@airmail.net)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:33:34 -0600


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Every time I boot I see the message in the subject. Here is dmesg from just=
before and after that error:

hda: Maxtor 90680D4, ATA DISK drive
hdb: non-IDE drive, CHS=3D784/255/63
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: FX240S, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 90680D4, 6485MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=3D826/255/63, (U)DMA
hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL HEADS?
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, 6149MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=3D13328/15/63, (U)D=
MA
hdd: ATAPI 24X CDROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.51

Now, this did not occur until I put the Quantum in... It also goes away if =
I move the Quantum to hdb (note there are ONLY 3 droves, Maxtor, Quantum an=
d Mitsumi CD). Now is this a kernel thing? Or a broke-ass BIOS?

Linux cerb 2.2.0-pre3 #1 Sat Jan 2 16:13:41 CST 1999
One Intel Pentium 75 - 200 processor, 78.64 total bogomips, 64M RAM
System library 2.0.7

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