[svlug] Odd IDE disk geometry differences...

[Edward M. Goldberg]

Check you BIOS setup.  You my hace set this up in the BIOS.....


9/28/2002 4:27:35 PM, Jeremy Zawodny <Jeremy at Zawodny.com> wrote:

>I just put two new Maxtor 80GB IDE disks in a newly built server
>(software RAID-1).
>
>I notice this in /var/log/dmesg:
>
>---snip---
>
>hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive
>hdc: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>hda: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=9732/255/63, UDMA(100)
>hdc: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=155114/16/63, UDMA(100)
>
>---snip---
>
>That seems odd, since they're supposed to be idendtical disks.  This
>isn't really a problem, but I'm curious about why there's a difference.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Jeremy
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