Detected hard disk geometry changed after installing FC2T2

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Sat Apr 3 18:45:37 UTC 2004


On Friday 02 April 2004 18:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:28:04PM -0500, Will Backman wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> This BIOS is functioning correctly, its a bug in FC2T2.

By any chance do you have the bugzilla report number or what package it was 
reported against?
-- 
Gene





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