Hi, >> 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. AFAIK the different reports are normal - the disk can be accessed in many ways. If it is a 1GB+ disk you only should make sure that in BIOS the access method is set to LBA, in no way NORMAL or LARGE. You can make check that at the screen right after after the memory check - the sort of table with CPU and disk info before it says "loading grub" or "loading lilo". Before info about your capacity there should be LBA. My friend's P3 800 had his 30GB disk set to LARGE and it screwed up the whole partition table when I tried to install MDK 8.2 (said something about sector 633GB conflicting with some 800GB sector... oh well). -- HTH Roman
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