On Sunday 09 June 2002 06:55, etharp wrote: > more info about the new MOBO is in order, in particular the IDE > controller (is it a HPT win-RAID?) > No, I stay clear of the raid controllers... The MSI k7T266 pro2 comes in different flavours and I chose the one which doesn't have any raid controllers.
On the motherboard, I have: Primary master: the wd drive, /dev/hde secondary master: a DVD drive, /dev/hdg I also have a PCI controller card and on it I have: primary master: an old IBM hard drive for backups: /dev/hda primary slave: zip drive: /dev/hdb secondary master: CD-writer: /dev/hdc--> /dev/scd0 A correction to the c,h,s count in the bios: it is (19158, 16, 255). Narfi. > On Saturday 08 June 2002 10:57 pm, Narfi wrote: > > In my previous life, I was young and ignorant and I bought a WD drive! > > ... well, I'm at least not young anymore .-) I installed mdk on this > > second harddrive of mine and the setup was with (cylinders, heads, > > sectors,) = (77545, 16, 63) > > However, after I moved the hard drive to a my new motherboard and > > installed mdk 8.2, fdisk and diskdrake report the geometry as > > (c,h,s) = (4865, 255, 63) and fdisk warns that partitions do not end > > on cylinder boundaries. > > > > Can I still use diskdrake to create new partitions on this hard drive? > > > > I tried to put a section into lilo.conf: > > [this is the disk in question. Nevertheless it is on the primary ide0 > > controller:] > > disk=/dev/hde > > sectors=63 > > heads = 16 > > cylinders = 774545 > > > > But this didn't change the way fdisk and diskdrake saw the drive > > geometry. > > > > If I go into the bios, the geometry is listed with heads = 16 and > > cylinders some value 4 thousand something (sorry, forgot to write > > down!) > > > > I have lba32 in /etc/lilo.conf and I do not share this hard drive with > > any other OS. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Resize the partitions to conform > > with heads = 255 using ext2online perhaps??? > > > > thanks, > > > > Narfi. > > > > mobo: MSI k7t266 pro2 > > /dev/hde: WD400BB > > > > fdisk -l /dev/hde > > > > Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hde1 * 1 64 511528+ 83 Linux > > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > > phys=(1014, 15, 63) should be (1014, 254, 63) > > /dev/hde2 64 3844 30359448 85 Linux extended > > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: > > phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) > > /dev/hde5 64 96 255496+ 82 Linux swap > > /dev/hde6 96 478 3071848+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hde7 478 1116 5119600+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hde8 1116 2901 14335744+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hde9 2901 3155 2047720+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hde10 3155 3206 409216+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hde11 3206 3844 5119600+ 83 Linux
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