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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