guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
Hi,
> I turned off the AUTO utility in BIOS and manually entered the relevant data
> from the hard drive: CHS 16383/16/63. Which is supposed to mean no of
> cylinders/heads/sectors per track.
Have you tried the other options ? LBA, LARGE, NORMAL ...
> I installed a Debian, which liked the partition table and gave CHS
> 59560/16/63.
>
> >From dmesg in Mdk8.0 I have: CHS 59560/16/63
>
> But here is probably the answer:
>
> [root@Archimedes guran]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
what gives "cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry" ?
Fran�ois.
