Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble: Solved

2002-06-10 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Monday 10 June 2002 05:53, you wrote: > On Monday 10 June 2002 01:26, you wrote: > > As I said previously, I had problems with my western digital hard > > drive. fdisk complained: > > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary > > Previously, I had tried to put this information in the header

Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble: Solved

2002-06-10 Thread John Richard Smith
On Monday 10 June 2002 01:26, you wrote: > As I said previously, I had problems with my western digital hard > drive. fdisk complained: > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary > Previously, I had tried to put this information in the header of > lilo.conf: install=/boot/boot.b > vga=normal

Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble

2002-06-09 Thread John Richard Smith
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

Re: [newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble

2002-06-09 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
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 controll

[newbie] cylinders, sectors and heads trouble

2002-06-08 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
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 motherboa