Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Wierd IDE configuration | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:39:54 -0500 (CDT) | From | kwrohrer@ce ... |
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And lo, Juhani Rautiainen saith unto me: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Mark Lord wrote: > > Juhani Rautiainen wrote: > > > I've got machine which has two identical IBM 16 GB disks. Funny thing > > > is that linux seems to think that their geometry is different. > > > Here is output from boot messages: > > > > > > hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, 9671MB w/466kB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA > > > hdb: IBM-DTTA-351680, 16124MB w/462kB Cache, CHS=2055/255/63, UDMA > > > hdc: IBM-DTTA-351680, 16124MB w/462kB Cache, CHS=32760/16/63, UDMA
My offhand guess is that's how the partition tables got written. I have two 9G Viking II SCSI disks, partitioned with different geometry because Tekram's and Diamond's controller BIOSes are a little different. Dunno how it happened for you. fdisk, p, and see for yourself...
Keith
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