On Monday 03 September 2001 10:28, Fran�ois Pons wrote:

> Have you tried the other options ? LBA, LARGE, NORMAL ...

No, I have not.

> what gives "cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry" ?

[guran@Archimedes guran]$ cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry
physical     59560/16/63
logical      3737/255/63

>From this I have drawn the conclusion that the 'conversation' with the hard 
drive is 'clean'. But it is best to keep in mind that this is Mdk8.0 that was 
started on a box, with the Zip drive attached. There might be remnants left 
from the initial 'interference'.

Thanks for your interest, but to day I will save my mirror on hdb, and clean 
hda to a fresh start.

regards
guran

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