Re: Re: problem with hard disk geometry

2007-10-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 15.08.07 03:10, Diego Brouard wrote: > The hardware is a PIV 2.8 ( is not "so" old :) ) > > I've made my homework ( http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html > ) and AFAIK, all that > "CHS" stuff is not applyable for modern hard drives and it seems that > Linux just ignores it. > >

Re: Re: problem with hard disk geometry

2007-08-14 Thread Diego Brouard
Hi. The hardware is a PIV 2.8 ( is not "so" old :) ) I've made my homework ( http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html ) and AFAIK, all that "CHS" stuff is not applyable for modern hard drives and it seems that Linux just ignores it. Also, I modprobed "edd" linux module which gives

Re: problem with hard disk geometry

2007-08-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Diego Brouard wrote: Hi. I'm not sure if this is a debian caused problem but perhaps. I installed recently a debian etch box on a RAID 1 based on one IDE hard disk. My intention was adding its pair later. Now I want to add this second hard disk. Both are identical model but for one de them, fdi

problem with hard disk geometry

2007-08-14 Thread Diego Brouard
Hi. I'm not sure if this is a debian caused problem but perhaps. I installed recently a debian etch box on a RAID 1 based on one IDE hard disk. My intention was adding its pair later. Now I want to add this second hard disk. Both are identical model but for one de them, fdisk tells me a wrong geo