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SubjectRe: Wierd IDE configuration
>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
>
>Both disks have identical settings in BIOS. Motherboard is Abit BX6 v2.0
>which is BX-based. This doesn't seem to cause any trouble but does anyone
>have idea why this happens?. BTW kernel is 2.2.6.

I'm not sure, but AFAIK, most (all?) Intel motherboard
chipsets do not (can't?) support LBA mode on the secondary
controller. I beleive this was just because the secondary
chain was only only ever supposed to have CDROM's on it.

You *could* override this in the kernel, but that makes
it unusable from another OS.

At least i think this is the way it is....

Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia

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