[mythtv-users] ASUS a7n266-vm IDE issue

[Leandro Dardini]

All motherboards I had under my fingers detects different drive geometry
depending on if they are mounted on the primary or on the seconday IDE
interface. Don't ask me why...

Leandro

----- Original Message -----
From: "m0j0.j0j0" <m0j0 at foofus.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] ASUS a7n266-vm IDE issue


> Hey all a7n266 users-
>
> I've run into an issue switching from an Seagate (ST380021A) 80G to a
> (ST3120024A) 120G harddrive using my A7N266-VM board. It seems that
> Linux detects a different drive geometry depending on if it's on the
> primary or secondary IDE. The drive label shows 16 Heads & 63 Sectors.
>
>
> The drive was configured on the secondary and looks like:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/hdc
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 232581 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1             1      1041    524632+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hdc2          1042      1456    209160   83  Linux
> /dev/hdc3          1457     11625   5125176   83  Linux
> /dev/hdc4         11626    232581 111361824    5  Extended
> /dev/hdc5         11626     12652    517576+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdc6         12653     13473    413752+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdc7         13474    232581 110430400+  83  Linux
>
>
> When it's placed on the primary it looks like:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1             1        66    524632+  82  Linux swap
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda2            66        92    209160   83  Linux
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda3            92       730   5125176   83  Linux
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda4           730     14594 111361824    5  Extended
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>      phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda5           730       794    517576+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6           794       846    413752+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7           846     14594 110430400+  83  Linux
>
>
> It runs like this, but makes a ton of noise writing to the disk. I'm
> assuming that's the result of the "does not end on cylinder" messages
> above.
>
> Any ideas? Bad harddrive controller? Am I doing something dumb here?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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