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SubjectRe: IDE weirdnes?
Hi there.

> 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).

Those totals don't make sense - x/255/63 is ~8 Mbytes per CYLINDER, so
that should be showing somewhere around 8 GIGAbytes, not 8 Mbytes...

> Why this behaviour? Is it the bios?

That I can't answer, sorry...

One thing though: If you swap them over, do the detected geometries
swap over as well? If so, that would indicate that they're not as
identical as you might otherwise assume...

Best wishes from Riley.

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