I had _exactly_ the same problem.  The only way I found around it was to
go into the BIOS and manually set both disks to NORMAL instead of LBA.
Attempting to set both to LBA didn't work.  This is with RedHat 6.0 with
the 2.2.5-22 kernel.  Perhaps this is fixed in a later kernel?

--
Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
California State University, Northridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Lyndon David wrote:

> I am just setting up a system and have put in two identical disks as
> hda and hdc. fdisk sees hda as having 255 heads and 63 sectors but hdc
> as having 16 heads and 63 sectors !

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