From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:05:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:04:54 -0500 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:55812 "EHLO rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:04:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3A786FDB.F7B2DF78@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:04:43 -0500 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rupa Schomaker CC: Andre Hedrick , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, ole@linpro.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Simple solution is to have kernel fall-back to LBA style translations instead of kernel "basic" translations. This would make it match the first two "BIOS" drives on most systems, and not really hurt anything in most cases. Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation info on ALL drives. -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. mlord@pobox.com Rupa Schomaker wrote: > > Andre Hedrick writes: > > > > But there is no indication of what the problems could be, > > > or what he thinks the geometry should be (and why). > > > I see nothing very wrong in the posted data. > > > > We agree Andries, but the enduser wants to see stuff the same. > > In my case, I have two identical Maxtor drives, but they reported > different geometry. How could that be? Move the "virgin" drive to > the motherboard IDE controller and suddenly the geometry is the same. > Use fdisk and partition the disk, write it, and then move to the > promise controller and the "correct" geometry was used (that is, it is > now the same as when hooked up to the motherboard ide controller). > > Why was it important to me? I'm doing RAID1 and it is really nice to > have the same geometry so that the partition info is the same between > the two drives. Makes life easier. > > -- > -rupa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/