I wonder if fdisk was just reporting the existing partition arrangements
first?
Although both drives were the same brand (I hope), possibly one was
partitioned by the manufacturer or reseller beforehand.
If it now works, I wouldn't worry about it.
Regards,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng.
Hi Howard,
I see this a lot. It seems that hda is in LBA mode, and hdc is CHS. I don't
usually change the mode or the settings, just calculate and create hdcX
slightly larger than the hdaX. This works nicely for disaster recovery also.
Cheers,
Marty
-Original Message-
From: Howard
It is fixable.
johnf@odie:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry
physical 16383/16/63
logical 2495/255/63
then you reboot and at the liloprompt you do
linux hdc=16383,16,63
that mean in this boot linux will force the geometry into lba mode. You
then run fdisk and recreate the partition table
