error message

[wang]

Rick, 
Thank you very much for your advise.
I will take care to write correct letters from now.

There is no LBA mode in BIOS of Intel S875WP1-E 
motherboard. I don't know why.

If there is other way to fix this problem, please advise.

Thank you again.
Owen.



> wang wrote:
> > When I install Red Hat 9.0,
> > I got an error message as following.
> 
> First, please post in plain ASCII.  Turn off any fancy fonts you may
> have.
> 
> Second, there is no such thing as Red Hat 9.0, just Red Hat 9.
> 
> > ============error message from Red Hat===============
> > The partition table on /dev/sda is inconsistent. There are
> > many reasons why this might be the case. Often, the reason
> > is that linux detected the BIOS geometry incorrectly. However,
> > this does not appear to be the case here. It is safe to ignore
> > but ignoring may cause(fixable) problems with some boot loaders,
> > and may cause problems with FAT file systems. Using LBA is
> > recommended.
> > ==================================================
> >  
> > Does sombody know how to fix it?
> >  
> > I use Intel S875WP1-E motherboard with newest version of BIOS
> > and newest version of Serial ATA driver.
> > I have 300GB x 4 Hard Drives, and use Raid 10 to configure them.
> 
> If the RAID 10 (RAID is in all capitals as it's an acronym) is done in
> BIOS or hardware, make sure you set up the BIOS to use LBA mode.  I
> wouldn't worry about this message--especially if some form of Windows
> is already installed.  Windows will do odd things to the partition
> tables on occasion.  Linux handles it OK.
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