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dolittle@weniac.math.toronto.edu (Ed Doolittle) wrote:

 >On 29 Oct 1996 14:18:08 GMT, Manuel Kolp <manuel@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN> wrote:
 >
 >>                   Type  Size   Cyl   Head  Precom  Landz Sector Mode
 >> Primary Master:   User  1083   2100   16   65535   2039   63    Normal
 >> Primary Slave:    None   0      0      0    0       0      0
 >> Secondary Master: User  640    1240   16   65535   1239   63    Normal
 >> Secondary Slave   None  0      0      0    0        0     0
 [...]                                                                  ^^^^^^
 >> Linux detects our drives as follows:
 >
 >> hda: WDC AC21000H, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=2100/16/63
 >> hdb: FX300_01, ATAPI CDROM drive
 >> hdc: WDC AC2635F, 610MB w/64kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1240/16/63
 >                                        ^^^
 >Just a guess: This looks like a discrepancy here.

No, it isn't... unfortunately.  LBA is just a way of addressing the
sectors on the drive.  For reasons completely opaque to me, it has
become synonymous with translation in BIOSes and the DOS world.  But
not so with Linux.

Besides, had there been a translation problem, fdisk would've
screamed bloody murder about the partition table.  No, it's not this
simple.  The partition table and the geometry used are fully
consistent.

I suggest this problem should be submitted to a kernel wizard who
can make sense of the crashes.  It may be related to a hardware
problem.  I can't be any more specific personally.

 - Peter

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