Hard drive not detected properly by linux: SOLVED (maybe)

[Joel Hammer]

No, that's no typo. That is a straight cut and past from sysinfo.

I am making progress. I put my new drive into position hdb (second drive,
and all is going well. fdisk now reported the same parameters has the other,
almost identical drive. I used fdisk to partition it, then moved it back to
hdd, and fdisk now reports the proper information.
I am mkfs'ing and hope to have this thing working soon.
I guess there is a difference between hda, hdb vs hdc and hdd.
My third 80 gig drive, in hdc, was prepared with the maxtor software.
Maybe that's why it works in hdc.

Joel
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 04:31:39PM -0700, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> On Sunday 14 July 2002 13:16, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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  <-----------------
> 
> Are these last two lines a typo? If not you have a definate problem here. How 
> can the physical and the log have the same heads and sectors but diferent 
> cyl's?
> 
> Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
> Westbank, B. C.
> 
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