Re: IDE woes:linux and BIOS won't agree on C/H/S detection

[Ishikawa]

I sent out a longish response a few minutes ago which explained the my problem was solved somehow! One thing I missed explaining in my original post is the AMI BIOS on the GA-7IXE4 motherboard has a very spartan set of options. For the geometry translation of ATA disk, only On/Off choice was available and according to help message On means LBA and Off is non-LBA (normail?). I let LBA on during my trials and errors. AWARD BIOS would have shown none/auto/large/lba, etc. for the same choice. Well, AMI BIOS seems to be pretty minor these days. I have seen it lately on my current motherboard as well as onthe low-price end machines from small vendors, inside VMware's virtual PC environment(!), but nowhere else. There could be some rough edges still around due to smaller user base. I am glad I have been using SCSI disk. If it had not been for my 2.4.0-test12 on a scsi disk I moved from my old PC, I would not have been able to use linux successfully with Win98 partition on this motherboard for a couple of weeks. I guess my motherboard is somewhat exceptional case where BIOSreports a geometry that didn't match the geometry used by popular OSes. Again thank you everybody for helpful tips. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/