[ltp] raid1 on thinkpad A31

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:55:02PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote:
> hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=3D5168/240/63, UDMA=
(33)
> hdc: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=3D77520/16/63, UDMA=
(100)
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
>  hdc: [PTBL] [5168/240/63] hdc1
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>=20
> Interesting how CHS is reporting differently for the 2 EXACT drives huh?
> Also UDMA is different.  Anyone know why?

I think that's what BIOS reports.

> PTBL means "partition table" right?  So the bios reports one thing,=20
> but Linux (according to man fdisk) NEVER uses CHS so it is saying
> "yes...hdc really has 5168/240/63".  Is that a good way to describe it?

AFAIR [PTBL] means the partition table used a different CHS scheme than
the one reported by BIOS.  The numbers of C/H/S are inferred from the
CHS addresses and the corresponding LBA addresses in the partition table.

Marius Gedminas
--=20
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