[I asked this question on the axp-list, and didn't get a response, so I'm asking in the SCSI forum instead] All but one of my four SCSI disks connected to my DEC Multia have geometries with heads = 64, sectors = 32, cylinders = approx. # MB. Except one, that is. This disk has H = 255, S = 63, C = 261. I wouldn't have worried about it, except that when I came close to filling the disk up, "bad things" happened. I ended up with a lot of SCSI errors, fsck puked, etc. One of the disks on my chain is identical to the one with the 255/63/261 geometry, and it has 64/32/2047 geometry. So I thought I would change the geometry in fdisk. fdisk doesn't want to let me do it--it always changes it to 67/32/1009 or something like that. My experience has shown me that when you low-level format a disk in SCSI bios, the geometry usually gets [re]set by the card, but I could not find a way to format it on my Multia. Any help? Or am I just being anal with the geometry on that one disk? Brendan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
