Sorry this is such a late reply to the thread
Can't you also force disk geometry settings with boot-prompt parameters? i.e.
add "hdx=cyl,head,sect" to your append line(s) in /etc/lilo.conf, where cyl =
the number of cylinders according to the BIOS, head = number of heads and sect =
number of sectors. Setting both disks in BIOS to use LBA mode and using this
append line to force linux to see the assigned geometry is probably the best way
to go.
This may also be relevant to Stephen Walton's problem if this allows him to use
the disks in LBA mode rather than Normal.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 10 December 1999 14:07
> To: linux raid
> Subject: Re: HELP-- identical disks but fdisk sees them different
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> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:09:18PM +0000, 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 !
>
> in addition to what has been said try zeroing the partition table and
> rebooting
> L.
>
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