Detected hard disk geometry changed after installing FC2T2

Will Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Fri Apr 2 18:28:04 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 13:24, Hervé Pagès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> My disk is a Seagate 120 GB, model ST380021A with 8MB of cache.
> 
> Depending on the "Access Mode" in use, my BIOS detect the following
> geometry :
> 
>   o "Access Mode" set on "Auto"     o "Access Mode" set on "LBA"
>       Cylinder = 38309                  Cylinder = 9729
>       Head = 16                         Head = 255
>       Sector = 255                      Sector = 63
> 
> 
Do you have the latest BIOS updates?  It is unfair to ask the kernel to
work with a BIOS that is misreporting hardware.





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