I had exactly the same experience with 2.2.13ac3 kernel, only setting disks to 
NORMAL made fdisk to see them as two identical disks.

Does this influence the speed of disks in any way ?


On pią, 10 gru 1999, Stephen Walton wrote:
>I had _exactly_ the same problem.  The only way I found around it was to
>go into the BIOS and manually set both disks to NORMAL instead of LBA.
>Attempting to set both to LBA didn't work.  This is with RedHat 6.0 with
>the 2.2.5-22 kernel.  Perhaps this is fixed in a later kernel?
>
>--
>Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
>California State University, Northridge
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>
>On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Lyndon David wrote:
>
>> 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 !

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