No, it is a
Quantum viking 4,5 WSE 880R 97-4345MB

So it's not big (4.5Gb), and it's not WD.

Do you need any additional information ?


civileme wrote:
> Christophe Combelles wrote:
> 
>> After having installed a 8.2beta4 on a single disk PC, I have tried to 
>> install a redhat 7.2. The partitionning tool of the redhat has warned 
>> me with the following message :
>>
>> "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another 
>> partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it 
>> didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore, but 
>> ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders."
>>
>> Maybe this should be investigated ? Does diskdrake get the correct 
>> bios geometry ? Does it really generate an incorrect partition table ?
>>
> Is your hard disk a big WD?  We have seen some approximation errors in 
> disk geometry with these through several kernels (and fdisk showed the 
> same thing!)  with certain implementations of the VIA KT133 series 
> chipsets.  If not, this might be something new.
> 
> Civileme
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