harddrive geometry
hey, when i start the suse installation, my harddrive ( a fujitsu mhg2102at ) is detected as heaving a CHS geometry of 1222/255/63 but the drive actually says it's 16383/16/63. from what i know, it doesn really matter as long as that doesn change once the drive is partioned and formatted, but is there a preferable one? thanks, martin maduck@madduck.net (greetings from the heart of the sun) -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first.
Linux doesn't care, as long as the total C*H*S adds up to the right number of blocks on the drive. Thegeometry x/255/z is "LBA'" mode -- which may be necessary for the BIOS to find the place to boot from, or for some lesser (coming out of Redmond) OS's to be able to use the whole disk -- On Sunday 07 January 2001 18:27, MaD dUCK wrote:
hey, when i start the suse installation, my harddrive ( a fujitsu mhg2102at ) is detected as heaving a CHS geometry of 1222/255/63 but the drive actually says it's 16383/16/63. from what i know, it doesn really matter as long as that doesn change once the drive is partioned and formatted, but is there a preferable one?
thanks, martin
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