HD geometry is wrong

thinker5555 · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 7:43 pm Post subject: HD geometry is wrong

Hi,

I have 2 Maxtor 80GB HDs, and one of them is not retaining the correct geometries. The one that's working fine is using:

Heads=255
Sectors=63
Cylinders=9732

The one that's wrong is giving me two different things, depending on what program I'm using to view it. Fdisk gives me H=16 S=63 C=155114, and cfdisk gives me H=16 S=63 C=24042. I've tried altering the geometries from within both programs (rebooting in between just to make sure) and nothing is changing. I need to get this one to match the first because it's only giving me a usable space of about 12GB.

Any help is appreciated.

Jeremy

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 7:48 pm Post subject:

Is your BIOS set to use LBA mode?

thinker5555 · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:11 pm Post subject:

Well, for that HD, I can't tell. It's on a Promise ATA/66 card. (FWIW, the working Maxtor is also on that card)