Tyan Motherboard 2nd IDE

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From: Scott Golby
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 00:00

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	Hi there,

	Does anyone know of a fault with the Tyan Tomcat S1563S motherboard
where it reports the wrong settings to Linux from the 2nd IDE port ?

	When a drive is connected to the 1st IDE port Linux gets back
the correct LBA information (790 Cyls).  When I connect the drive to the 
2nd IDE port I get back the settings with 13446 Cyls, even though the BIOS
is supposedly set to LBA.

	Anyone seen this ?   The motherboard uses the Intel 430HX chip
set and I'm using Linux 2.0

	'C' ya ...

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