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Re: Parted fails on disks with 240 Heads (1.6.19)
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Parted fails on disks with 240 Heads (1.6.19) |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:23:30 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.3.28i |
Hi Marco,
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:06:31AM +0100, Marco Berger wrote:
> There are problems with M$ booting and partioning of HD where reported by
> the BIOS with 240 Heads (many Laptop HD's).
>
> I have tested with the "Workaround" (echo the /sys/firmware/... Values in
> /proc/ide/hda/settings ).
>
> The behaviour of parted is always the same it portioning the HD always
> with 255 Heads not with 240.
Could you please send your partition table?
dd if=/dev/hda of=berger-240heads.img bs=512 count=1
Thanks,
Andrew