Re: Trouble with 3GB EIDE drive

[Tobias Weingartner <weingart@wolfram.com>]

On Tuesday, July 7, Dan Grabski wrote:
> 
> The geometry as reported by fdisk is 1023/16/63 [1031184 sectors].
> But when I get to the disklabel editor in the install, I did a 'p'
> to print out the disk stats, and got the following:
> 
> <snip>
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 6296
> total sectors: 6346368
> free sectors: 1031121
> <snip>
> 

Ok, translation is not happening in the BIOS.  The bios thinks that the
disk is a 1023*16*63/2048 == 503MB disk.  It is simply truncating the
cylinder values.

Have a look in your bios setup.  Set the disk type to LBA if you have it,
or some sort of "translated" setting if you don't.

Note: if you have another OS on that drive, you might potentially have to
re-install it when you change the drive setting in the BIOS.

--Toby.