Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:07:49 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk |
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In <19991207182051.A17522@win.tue.nl> Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl) wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Kristofer T. Karas wrote:
>> Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> >>> I'm having a problem with a new IBM IDE disk I just bought >>> Model=IBM-DJNA-371350, FwRev=J76OA30K, SerialNo=GM0GM088910 >>> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } >>> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 >> ^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> There's your problem. The number of cylinders is here is causing problems, as >> it is clamped to 2^14. Most BIOSes let you lower this number by increasing the >> number of phony heads to 255.
> Nonsense.
Unfortunatelly, not :-((
> All large disks will show RawCHS=16383/16/63, entirely independent of the > BIOS (which is not involved at all). It is the ATA standard.
Huh ?
-- cut -- [root@localhost /root]# hdparm -i /dev/ide/hd/c0b0t0u0
/dev/ide/hd/c0b0t0u0:
Model=IBM-DJNA-371350, FwRev=J76OA30K, SerialNo=GM0GMGL2059 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=26310/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=1966kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast) CurCHS=1650/255/63, CurSects=26520480, LBA=yes LBA CHS=825/510/63 Remapping, LBA=yes, LBAsects=26520480 tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 -- cut --
As you can see RawCHS here is 26310/16/63 and all is working like a charm. As I have EXACTLY same model as Wichert (including FwRev and such) I'm pretty sure it's something in BIOS and/or recent kernel changes (I'm still using 2.2.10ac10)...
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