Re: [TCLUG:17648] Moving the install & Linux fdisk 20gb IDE driveh*ll

[andy@theasis.com]

Hey Bill, 


I have a box running with 2 20G Maxtor drives (RAID 1). I didn't like the
way my drives were autodetected, so I forced the CHS configuration via
lilo.conf, which has a last line that looks like:

	append="hdc=2491,255,63"

It didn't format the 2 identically but was close enuff for me -- works
fine. The BIOS is set to "auto" for LBA, and I believe it's "on". 

On boot, linux recognizes the drives as:
hda: Maxtor 92049U6, 19473MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63
hdc: Maxtor 92049U6, 19544MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63


It looks like (I like 2G partitions):

[xxxxxx:~]$ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/hda 

Disk /dev/hda: 2482 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1          0+      2       3-    24066   83  Linux
/dev/hda2        255    2481    2227  17888377+   5  Extended
/dev/hda3          3     254     252   2024190   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
/dev/hda5        255+    257       3-    24066   83  Linux
/dev/hda6        258+    512     255-  2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda7        513+    529      17-   136521   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8        530+    784     255-  2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda9        785+   1039     255-  2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda10      1040+   1294     255-  2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda11      1295+   1549     255-  2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda12      1550+   1804     255-  2048256   83  Linux
/dev/hda13      1805+   2059     255-  2048256   83  Linux

Hope this is useful,

Andy Scherrer