have seen what you describe several times, if i have the identical pair of HDs
as master on each of my ide channels. they are set the same in bios, linux
says they are the same at bootup, but fdisk does not. i upgrade bios, this
help one machine, but not most.
i now give the kernel boot time args;
linux hda=x,y,z hdc=x,y,z
see the large disk howto for this (or perhaps it was boot-args howto)
then it works fine, fdisk see the same as everyone else.
allan
Seth Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > Hello all,
> > We are planning on using RAID-1 to mirror two identical drives.
> > The drives are set up the same in bios, CHS mode with 25228
> > cylinders, 16 heads, ande 63 sectors each. Linux sees them and shows
> > the same setup as the bios. Linux fdisk on the other hand, shows
> > different setups for the drives. One(hdb) has 1582 cylinders and 255
> > heads, while the other(hdc) has 25228 cylinders and 16 heads. We
> > were wondering if this was a problem that would be preventative to
> > implementing RAID-1 mirroring, and if so how we can set things right.
>
> I know this may be something you\'ve already looked at but check to see if
> LBA mode is turned on or off in the bios.
>
> -sv
>
>
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