Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-486
Version: 2.6.18-6
Severity: normal
When trying to install an additional Harddisk, I noted that fdisk reported a
wrong size for it.
Some investigation revealed that /proc/ide/hdc/geometry reported
physical 16383/16/63 # this is ok
logical 58140/16/63 # this is wrong
fdisk reported
Disk /dev/hdc: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
sfdisk -g
/dev/hdc: 58140 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
sfdisk -G
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
/dev/hdc: 3648 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
I have seen this behavior on linux-image-2.6.17-2-{4,5}86, too.
It is present on at least three different computers
An excerpt from dmesg on an Inspirion 1150:
...
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SN-324S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: FUJITSU MHT2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 58605120 sectors (30005 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: cache flushes supported
hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 < hdc5 >
...
Further information is available upon request.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500,
'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-486
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-486 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre3-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-18 Yet Another mkInitRD
linux-image-2.6.18-3-486 recommends no packages.
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