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Re: disk geometry
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: disk geometry |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:40:51 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:40:07PM -0400, David Leuser II wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies to my last post
>
> Running "parted" from RH7.2 rescue mode (with my adaptec integrated PERC,
> in case it matters), I get the following
>
> "Warning: the operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sda is
> 2212/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. You should
> check that this matches the BIOS geometery before using this program."
>
> Unfortunately these numbers do not appear to be available through my bios
> and are not physically written on the drive either... Are there any
> utilities out there to get this? (I presume I can't use any linux commands
> since Linux is whats misinterpreting the size?)
You can probably just ignore. Parted will give more warning messages
if things are looking IF-y. This stuff is only relevant if you are
using CHS addressing (eg: for your boot loader)
Cheers,
Andrew