I have an IDE hardrive that gets misdetected by my BIOS (there's a flaw in the drive - nothing to do with BIOS CHS limits or anything) as having an incorrect number of cylinders (2013), effectively cutting it's capacity in half. I have set the parameters manually (4092 cylinders) in CMOS and it's a game of craps as to whether an OS will detect the incorrect value or my override. i.e. Windows 9x/ME and Linux Mandrake detect my override settings and everything is joy :- ) Windows NT/2000/XP and Knoppix as well as gentoo Linux use the incorrect (autodetect) value.
I can get gentoo to change it partly by passing "hda=4092,15,63" to the kernel. This doesn't solve the problem as when I "cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry" I get: physical 2013/15/63 logical 4092/15/63 If I pass an additional "hda=noprobe" then my hda doesn't even show up in /dev. During all of these attempts I've tried to use cfdisk with -c -h & -a flags but it cannot write to the drive (unless I accept it as half the size it really is). This is my first time using gentoo but I decided to post this here because this seems to be the most knowledgable mailing list that I'm a member of. Anybody have suggestions? Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
