Hard drive not detected properly by linux

[Joel Hammer]

Oh yes. I left out that the after reboot dmesg shows this:

hdd: MAXTOR 6L080L4, ATA DISK drive
hdd: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=155114/16/63

Why fdisk shows different parameters is beyond me.
Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 24042 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes


Joel


On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:16:19PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I have a fairly modern system,
> 
> OS Release   : 1.1.2 release 2.4.5-win4lin
>    Version   : #3 Wed Jul 4 16:01:48 EDT 2001
>    built with: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release  
> 
> I have been using two large maxtor drives, both 80 gigs.
> I am trying to install a third 80 gig drive, drive hdd, which differs from
> drive 2 (hdb) by only one letter in the model number.
> 
> The bios auto detects the drives with no problem, and reports 255 heads 
> for my problem drive, hdd. HOWEVER, LINUX INSISTS THERE ARE ONLY 16.
> 
> Hard disk 2  : /dev/hdb
>    Model     : MAXTOR 6L080J4
>    Serial No : 664132556833
>    Capacity  : 76340 MB
>    Cache     : 1819 KB
>    CHS (log) : 9732 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
>    CHS (phy) : 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
> Hard disk 4  : /dev/hdd
>    Model     : MAXTOR 6L080L4
>    Serial No : 664209711463
>    Capacity  : 11833 MB
>    Cache     : 1819 KB
>    CHS (log) : 24042 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
>    CHS (phy) : 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors              
> 
> I have set up the bios identically with both drives. I have tried feeding
> boot parameters to the kernel with lilo. I have read and tried to follow the
> suggestions (so many) in the Large Disk How to.
> 
> Nothing works.
> 
> I have run Maxtor's installation software against both drives. It says that
> EZ-Bios is not installed on either one. I did try to prepare the drive with
> Maxtor software, but, I didn't have a windows or other boot disk as required
> by the Maxtor software, so I don't think anything was done to the drive.
> 
> Any insight appreciated,
> 
> Joel
> 
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