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thinker5555 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 77 Location: Texas
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 7:43 pm Post subject: HD geometry is wrong |
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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 |
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delta407 Bodhisattva
Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 2876 Location: Chicago, IL
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Is your BIOS set to use LBA mode? |
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thinker5555 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 77 Location: Texas
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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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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) |
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