Check your bios settings.. See if one is in LBA mode,etc..
Just ask you bios to autodetect the drives.
I believe the bios has three ways of accessing drives.. each way makes the harddrive
report different heads/sectors/etc.
David Robinson.
Lyndon David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am in a bit of a pickle.
>
> I am just setting up a system and have put in two identical disks as hda and hdc.
>fdisk
> sees hda as having 255 heads and 63 sectors but hdc as having 16 heads and 63
>sectors !
>
> Now this gives me a big problem in that I bought two identical drives so that I
>could make
> the partitions the same. The bios (ami) says 16 heads so why does the kernel see
>them as
> different. They are definitely the same drive. They even have sequential serial
>numbers.
>
> Any help most appreciated.
>
> --
> Lyndon David Internet and Intranet development
> Sentinet Ltd http://www.sentinet.co.uk
