> Sharrea wrote: > > I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different > > geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for > > hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be > > much appreciated.
I can't recite the details, but a disk can be formatted with different geometries. (I don't know if that was what I meant to say.) Try again: In some programs (fdisk, partition commnder, bios ????) I have seen more than one geometry reported for the same hard disk. (AHH, IIRC, it was in the bios.) Although there was a mechanism to choose any one of them, if I chose the wrong one the disk was unreadable. Maybe someone else can provide more insight on this. Randy Kramer
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