Re: IDE weirdnes?

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Tue, 25 May 1999 12:37:08 -0400


> I have two identical 10G disks, first connected as primary-master, the
> other as secondary-master. They are detected differently by the kernel
> (the first is recognized as 1024/255/63, giving ~8 MBytes, the other is
> 19650/16/63 - 9671 MBytes).
>
> Why this behaviour? Is it the bios?

Question, when the kernel checks the partitions, do you see anything like
[ptbl] in there? If it is, that's where it's getting the geometry. I'm
assuming this because I had a 1.2gb drive that reported that until I wiped
the partition table.

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