On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > the same setup as the bios. Linux fdisk on the other hand, shows
> > different setups for the drives. One(hdb) has 1582 cylinders and 255
> > heads, while the other(hdc) has 25228 cylinders and 16 heads. We
> I know this may be something you've already looked at but check to see if
> LBA mode is turned on or off in the bios.
I doubt it would make difference--as far as I can tell, Linux will only
read the drive parameters from the BIOS for drives on the primary IDE
controller (hda and hdb). If it doesn't find any parameters in the BIOS
(ie, the drive is selected as not installed in the BIOS setup), it will
still query the drive directly, as it does for drives on the secondary,
trinary, and quarternary controlleres.
So a possible fix might be to tell the BIOS that the primary slave drive
(/dev/hdb) is not installed--this will enable Linux to read the drive
parameters directly from the drive, without the BIOS translation (how else
do you end up with 255 heads??) getting in the way.
Brian
