Mismatch in disk geometries and fdisk problems
Thanks to Andy for figuring this one out. Sometimes when I get a PC
to make into a firewall with two hard disks that are destined to be
mirrored, I find that the geometry on one doesn’t match the geometry
on the other according to fdisk, despite the drives being identical.
As it turns out this has to do with Linux guessing the disk geometry
by looking at the partition table, and is probably a result of a
partition table made from DOS/Windows on one drive and not on the
other. I dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=100 and repeat
for the other drive, reboot, and then the geometries agree.
Dude I’m creating a DD soundtrack myself for a friend. I have to thank you for having a list of the songs I need to find (love that church song). Was wondering where you got the voice clips from tho, can’t seem to find em anywhere.
I’d appreciate the help.
Dean
Comment by Dean — Tuesday, 17 August 2004 @ 04:49:03