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Re: fdisk
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> fdisk detects different IDE disk geometries for the same disk depending on
> whether it is attached to IDE1 or IDE2. Is there an explanation for this
> somewhere?
It might be that the BIOS sees them differently. Linux ide code first
tries to read geometry using the bios.
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Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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