Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Mar 2000 20:48:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Dale Amon <> | Subject | Linux makes 30G WD disk confused about its identity |
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Since there is an on going thread on 32G drives, I thought it might be a good time to bring up a problem I've been having with a 30G Western Digital IDE drive.
Using the manufacturers DOS boot application, the drive info looks like this:
C H S MB Default 59598 16 63 30760 Currently 16383 16 63 8455 Rom BIOS 3740 255 63 30764
When I boot into Linux it sees the drive at the "current" settings, which I believe are getting forced in when I use fdisk to create the partition table (cfdisk can't deal with it at all until I do this)
I've tried changing CHS in fdisk and it seems to take them... but if I exit and restart the program, everything is back to the values in the "Currently" line again. I discussed this some weeks ago on linux-hardware and have not progressed towards a solution yet.
Something, somewhere is forcing this drive to think it is 8G instead of 30G. It ain't the BIOS, so it seems to be driver related or perhaps a failing in fdisk.
I can kill the partition table, go into the DOS app and reset the drive, but it goes right back as soon as I boot.
The system in question is far from a phone line and has no external connectivity, so updates are painful. But it is running 2.2.14 kernel with debian potato dist as of November 1999.
I tried a 2.3.x kernel as well and that didn't solve the problem either, although I limited my tests because I was getting some error messages that were worrisome and this is not a system I wish to lose a file system on!
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