Re: Disk Druid and cylinder numbers question - followup

["Eric Wood" <eric interplas com>]

Umm... fdisk shows that /dev/hda has 255 heads and /dev/hdd has 16 heads.
That explains the cylinder difference.  The BIOS says they both have 16
heads. There is no BIOS update to the Shuttle SK41G.  I don't know if this
is a linux bug or a BIOS bug.  To me the BIOS looks right.

-eric wood

Eric Wood wrote:
> Install RH9 and I want to RAID /dev/hda and /dev/hdd together.  Both
> drives are identical 40 gig Maxtors.  Hoever, Disk Druid shows:
>
> /dev/hda
>   Free space    1    4998    39205M    Free space
> /dev/hdd
>   Free space    1    79656    39205M    Free space
>
> In BIOS, I've set the both drive translations either to Auto or to
> LBA.  No matter what, Disk Druid presents different number of
> cylinders for the two drives?  I don't think I'll be able to RAID
> them?
>
> Any ideas?
> -eric wood