Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 May 1999 12:37:08 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: IDE weirdnes? |
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> I have two identical 10G disks, first connected as primary-master, the > other as secondary-master. They are detected differently by the kernel > (the first is recognized as 1024/255/63, giving ~8 MBytes, the other is > 19650/16/63 - 9671 MBytes). > > Why this behaviour? Is it the bios?
Question, when the kernel checks the partitions, do you see anything like [ptbl] in there? If it is, that's where it's getting the geometry. I'm assuming this because I had a 1.2gb drive that reported that until I wiped the partition table.
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