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

2000-12-24 Thread 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 avai

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

2000-12-24 Thread Ishikawa
Guest section DW wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:11:41AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: > > > I have to think more deeply then what the best measure would be. > > I suppose you can get all systems involved to agree on 255 heads > if you select LBA in the BIOS. > > Andries Hi, I think I misunderstood

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

2000-12-22 Thread Guest section DW
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 12:11:41AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: > I have to think more deeply then what the best measure would be. I suppose you can get all systems involved to agree on 255 heads if you select LBA in the BIOS. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

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

2000-12-22 Thread Ishikawa
Thank you for your tips. Guest section DW wrote: > First a few warnings - probably you know already, but just to be sure: > > > (i) The geometry you get is mostly determined by the BIOS settings > (Normal / Large / LBA / PartitionTable). > > > (ii) The 2.2.14+ and 2.4 behaviours are both cor

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

2000-12-21 Thread Guest section DW
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:25:20AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: [a long and very well documented story] > How can I "erase" this 2940/255/63 CHS setting from the disk It is far from clear that it is on your disk, so it is far from clear that something can be erased. First a few warnings - probably y