From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Molenda To: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: hard disk fun == down time Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010329210551.A8694@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <20010329212736.A9776@redhat.com> <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com> X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00523.html 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Molenda To: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: hard disk fun == down time Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:06:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20010329210551.A8694@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <20010329212736.A9776@redhat.com> <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00523.html Message-ID: <20010329210600.fcDezpW_eu-OMj6YYD3OMennu3JQdBiow7LhsTVqLEs@z> 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