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Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs? |
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:21:48 +1000 |
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 01:35:26PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I think I know what happened. That IDE drive was connected to a 3ware
> ATA IDE RAID controller, which reported the geometry as 9732/255/63.
> When I moved it to an IDE channel on MB, BIOS reports 155114/16/63.
> That is why Linux kernel reports:
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> ...
> hdc: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=155114/16/63, UDMA(33)
> ...
> Partition check:
> ...
> hdc: [PTBL] [9732/255/63] hdc1
I agree, that explains everything. So, do you think Parted is doing
The Right Thing TM? (I do)
Cheers,
Andrew