From: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
To: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: hard disk fun == down time
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010329210551.A8694@shell17.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:27:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The end result was that when I wrote to /dev/hda4, I was also randomly
> writing to /dev/hda3.
I was just talking with Marc Rovner on the phone and mentioned the
problem. He suggested that some old BIOSes had kooky confusion
about larger hard drives, and if Linux didn't know that the BIOS
might report incorrect information, hilarity could ensue. Marc
said the trick was to specify explicitly the size of the drive
(cylinders, sectors, etc.) in Linux and everything would be OK.
FWIW.
Jason
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From: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
To: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: hard disk fun == down time
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010329210551.A8694@shell17.ba.best.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20010329210600.fcDezpW_eu-OMj6YYD3OMennu3JQdBiow7LhsTVqLEs@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:27:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The end result was that when I wrote to /dev/hda4, I was also randomly
> writing to /dev/hda3.
I was just talking with Marc Rovner on the phone and mentioned the
problem. He suggested that some old BIOSes had kooky confusion
about larger hard drives, and if Linux didn't know that the BIOS
might report incorrect information, hilarity could ensue. Marc
said the trick was to specify explicitly the size of the drive
(cylinders, sectors, etc.) in Linux and everything would be OK.
FWIW.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-31 19:40 Christopher Faylor
2001-03-29 18:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Jason Molenda
2001-03-29 20:34 ` Jason Molenda
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-03-29 20:56 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-12-31 19:40 ` law
2001-04-01 20:46 ` law
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Jason Molenda [this message]
2001-03-29 21:06 ` Jason Molenda
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-03-29 22:14 ` Christopher Faylor
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