IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue

[Arne Schwabe]

TENEBRAE <tenebrae at thcproductions.com> writes:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Thomas Beer wrote:
>
>> Correct. It states that the Geometry fdisk is assuming differs with that
>> the BIOS issues. So I should correct the BIOS disk setting, which,
>> apparently, are correct.
>
> I can't speak directly to IBM, but I've seen this behavior on machines w/
> vendor utilities on the first slice on the disk.  Dell is the first
> that comes to mind.  If IBM has proprietary system utilities on the first
> slice, that may cause the behavior you describe.

Not on the first slice but at the end of the disk, this area seem to
be empty but it is not. IIrc the bios also reports a lower disk size
to hide that area but Fbsd ignores that iirc. So be careful when
paritioning with freebsd. Linux btw iirc recognizes the disk with the
smaller size.

Arne
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