On Sunday 09 June 2002 15:33, you wrote:
I have the same MoBo as you but with the raid controller which I
disable in bios.
I am curious , what is a WD drive, IDE or Scsi ?, my mobo sees my
drive correctly, but then the size is never as much as the
manufacturers claim . I wonder whether this WD drive of yours needs
something to enable your OS to recognise it properly.Do mandrake or
linux have any websites on the subject.
The "extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)" happened to
me when I too used more that one partition tool, and it was one of
the reasons why I bought partition magic to do all my partitioning
and I noticed it makes a better job of measuring h s c so that when
you choose a partition size it goes for the nearest neat ending in h
s c, but I don't think it has to be PM ,any good partitioning tool
will do so long as you stick to it. These are only my personal
impressions and I cannot say other people have confirmed it, but if I
can avoid it I no longer use the old dos fdisk, it is behind the
times, especially with the larger modern hard drives.
John
> 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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