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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: Rupa Schomaker <rupa-list+linux-kernel@rupa.com>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
	Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, mlord@pobox.com, ole@linpro.no,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 03:44:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010201034441.A27725@cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101310936280.14252-100000@master.linux-ide.org> <m3u26ffrej.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <m3u26ffrej.fsf@localhost.localdomain>; from rupa-list+linux-kernel@rupa.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:33:24AM -0800


[Rupa Schomaker]
> In my case, I have two identical Maxtor drives, but they reported
> different geometry.
[...]
> 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.

If that's what you needed, you could have used 'dd' to copy the
partition table from one drive to the other.  Easier than going in and
re-cabling just to fool your BIOS.

Peter
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-01  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-31 16:43 Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-31 17:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 19:33   ` Rupa Schomaker
2001-01-31 20:03     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01  6:05       ` Rupa Schomaker
2001-02-01  8:23         ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 20:04     ` Mark Lord
2001-01-31 20:08       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 20:55         ` Dan Hollis
2001-01-31 21:10           ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01  9:44     ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-31 23:15 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-31 23:08 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-31 16:02 Ole Aamot
2001-01-31 16:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-31 16:57   ` Paul Flinders
2001-01-31 17:47     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-01 14:15       ` Matthias Andree
2001-02-01 15:03         ` Paul Flinders
2001-02-01 17:45         ` Andre Hedrick

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