Re: Last partition sectors access problem
Javier Miqueleiz said:
> I suspect CHS and LBA translation problems can be involved. When running
> lilo it displays the following warning:
most likely that its not a bios problem. Linux ignores the bios(thankfully).
I've had linux display messages like "hda: bios reports size of XXX but size
is actually YYY, overriding bios settings". And I've had linux recognize IDE
disks that the BIOS could not(even DOS fdisk said no fixed disks present, in
an old P100), Linux saw it just fine(had to boot from floppy though).
BIOS is used to boot the disk, but thats usually as far as it goes, once
the kernel is loaded it does it's own investigations and configures the
disks the way it thinks is best.
how do you know these sectors cannot be accessed? do you get kernel
error messages or something?
the disks are old enough, and the controller is new enough that I
can't imagine any issues....perhaps if you show some evidence that
you can't access those sectors it may help determine the cause,
maybe the disk has overlapping partitions, or is not formatted
correctly..etc..
fdisk -l /dev/DEVICE
for each of your disks that show the trouble, along with kernel
log entries(dmesg) showing the disk information(about 15 lines
probably) would help too
nate
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