Hard drive not detected properly by linux

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Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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

what does lilo.conf look like?

> 
> 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

still using that old buggy kernel, eh?


>>   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,


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