The cylinders,heads,sectors are the hardware configuration for each hard
disk.
If NT schewed up, that means NT wasn't installed properly with
original hardware configuration of hard disk, I think.
Thanks,
DK
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DooKee Cho/MS352 FERMILAB P.O. BOX 500 Batavia IL 60510-0500
dkcho@fnal.gov/
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, DooKee Cho wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Try
> >
> > append = "hd=2100,16,63" # hd=cylinders,heads,sectors
> >
>
>
> > You should change cylinders, heads, sectors for your Hard Disk.
>
> You *really* need to know what you're doing if you're going to try this,
> especially if you have data already on the disk, or you have partitions
> you wish to use with (eg) Windows NT. I would suggest you read the HOWTO
> document referenced by a previous posting to this list before considering
> anything as drastic as telling the hard drive itself that it has a
> different number of cylinders, heads and sectors. This can work, but can
> also screw up *really* badly (I had a nasty experience with a medallist
> 8.6GB drive on a dual-boot machine I was trying to configure). My problem
> was fixed by using lba, a 2.0.35 kernel and NT pre-service pack 3, if
> anyone is interested.
>
> Regards,
> Chris.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > DK
> >
> >
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> > DooKee Cho/MS352 FERMILAB P.O. BOX 500 Batavia IL 60510-0500
> > dkcho@fnal.gov/
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Stephen Bailey wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > We recently bought two Gateway 2000 E-4200 machines with
> > > 128 MB RAM and 14.4 MB Ultra ATA drives. After installing
> > > FNAL Linux 5.0.2, I noticed that only ~7 Gb of disk space
> > > was formated (as reported by df, or looking at the partition
> > > table with fdisk), and free only reports 64 Mb of memory.
> > > When rebooting, the BIOS reports 128 Mb RAM and Gateway's
> > > factory tests found 128 Mb. To confirm the hard drive size,
> > > I tried booting with a floppy to DOS, and using DOS's fdisk
> > > to look at the partitions. It reported a ~13.5 Gb disk, but
> > > listed the partitions as being the size that Linux thinks they
> > > are with no direct mention of where the missing space is. Curiously,
> > > there was a "usage" column with numbers like 49% for a 6 Gb
> > > partition and 7% for a 1 Gb partition. Those numbers do not
> > > correspond to the amount of data on those disks. i.e. it appears
> > > that the ext2 formatting was extremely inefficient in using
> > > the space on these drives.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have experience with either of these problems, or
> > > can anyone point me to the appropriate documentation/resources
> > > to help me get the full usage of the memory and disk space in
> > > these machines?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Stephen Bailey
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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