I believe that all drives greater than 8 or 8.4 GB have the C/H/S values.
Don't remember why, though.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
> "Eric L. Damron" wrote:
>
> > I have a Maxtor 92049U6 20Gig. hard drive. The specs that are printed on
> > the case are:
> >
> > Cyl = 16383 Heads = 16 Sectors = 63
> >
> > This doesn't make sense becaues I have an 8Gig with the same
> > Cyl./Head/Sector information!
> >
> > I cannot seem to get Linux to recognize the entire 20Gb.
> >
> > Any Suggestions, doc files, howtos??
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I always buy Maxtor, I am using a 11Gig and a 17Gig Maxtors without any
> troubles.... hmmm
>
> Well... two suggestions,
>
> 1- Have you tried LBA ?
> 2- try http://www.maxtor.com
> for additional info on your HDD
>
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