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To: hundin@hal-pc.org
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Subject: Re: drive geometry problem 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:25:26 GMT."
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:11:56 +0100
From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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In message <200109251525.KAA18120@mail.hal-pc.org>, hundin@hal-pc.org writes:
>e 
>drive was ~2gb. This bios has a bug in the ide detection that often assigns 
>random numbers to drive size. Ever since the kernel has reported the drive as 
>eing the size the bios thought it was the first time despite all efforts 
>including repartitioning manually with the correct geometry. the kernel just 
>complains and truncates the disk. i have booted from cd and dd'd zeros across 

Some IDE hard disks have a jumper that forces the drive to behave
as a 2Gb disk. Could you have enabled such a jumper by accident?

Ian


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