Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:03:04 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1 |
| |
On 31 Jan 2001, Rupa Schomaker wrote:
> Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes: > > > > > But there is no indication of what the problems could be, > > > or what he thinks the geometry should be (and why). > > > I see nothing very wrong in the posted data. > > > > We agree Andries, but the enduser wants to see stuff the same. > > In my case, I have two identical Maxtor drives, but they reported > different geometry. How could that be? Move the "virgin" drive to > the motherboard IDE controller and suddenly the geometry is the same. > Use fdisk and partition the disk, write it, and then move to the > promise controller and the "correct" geometry was used (that is, it is > now the same as when hooked up to the motherboard ide controller). > > Why was it important to me? I'm doing RAID1 and it is really nice to > have the same geometry so that the partition info is the same between > the two drives. Makes life easier.
Please read the above and pass the geometry to the kernel. Mother boards have to do a translation to use the drive completely.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |