[TriLUG] Configuring disks under Linux

[Daniel T. Chen]

What type of controller is it running on, VIA? Intel? Make sure you have
support for it compiled into your kernel.

For the time being I'm tracking Rik's VM instead of Linus/Andrea's
mainline ones. The -ac tree also has the advantage of being a bit more
stable for me and allows me to pass ``append="ide0=ata100"'' (which
Linus's doesn't) to LILO.

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Tom Bryan wrote:

> I got a bare 40GB IBM Deskstar 60GXP disk today, and I was wondering how to 
> make sure that Linux is addressing the disk correctly.  I once had a strange 
> problem years ago with another disk where it appeared that fdisk was seeing a 
> few more cylinders than the disk actually had.  
>               
> At boot, I get 
> hdb: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(33)   
> 
> Hm...I'll have to figure out why that isn't UDMA(100).  fdisk says
> 
> Command (m for help): p
>  
> Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 79780 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> 
> But the label on top of the drive had the following text (among other items)
> 
> LBA 80.418.240
> CHS 16383/16/63
> 
> By the way, this is a second disk on my machine, intended to be used for 
> porting an Oracle-based application at work to Linux. :)
> 
> ---Tom