Re: Re: problem with hard disk geometry
On 15.08.07 03:10, Diego Brouard wrote:
> The hardware is a PIV 2.8 ( is not "so" old :) )
>
> I've made my homework ( http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html
> ) and AFAIK, all that
> "CHS" stuff is not applyable for modern hard drives and it seems that
> Linux just ignores it.
>
> Also, I modprobed "edd" linux module which gives me information about
> the drives ( /sys/firmware/edd )
> and the CHS staff used for both is the exactly the same.
>
> By now, I've changed the CHS of the new disk using fdisk and I've made
> the partitions. No problems by the moment.
> I will see what happens when I reboot the machine tomorrow.
there are two geometries on each disk: one in its ROM, another one in the
partition table. If you create partition table with different geometry, it
will be used (but linux will announce the difference in log).
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