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On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Presently I am having the same problem, so I wish to share what I've noticed
> about it.
>
> I have an old Fujitsu HD that insn't recognized accordingly to the product
> information (2490 cylinders 16 heads 63 sectors - all the possibilities
> point to 16 heads) but seems to have 128 heads instead (the second setup
> option), which is absolutely impossible - but it works!
>
> Since I have to interchange HDs very often (among different OSes), sometimes
> the BIOS accepts one or other set of values, which shows me a 'LI' and stops
> booting.
>
> When this happens I go to the Pc setup and try the second option and then it
> works.

Please explain exactly what you do here.  I don't follow it.

> This same HD works fine on other PCs, which drives me to believe it's a BIOS
> problem and the OS was copied to HD without noticing this oddity.

My muc newer 100GB HD works badly on two computers, including the one 
where I partitioned it, so I think it is a HD problem.  But maybe DOS is 
confused by 100GB.  All of the linux partitions act normally.

> This other HD that I'm using right now sometimes is said to have 555
> cylinders instead of 528 which makes the MSWindows freeze. Again, it works
> very well on other computers.
>
> Furtherly I'm intending to erase the 'BL3'  HD and repeat all the procedures
> from scratch, ensuring that I get just the 16 heads and not any other
> number.
>
> I hope this information can be of any help.

Please explain exactly what I should do to make my HD work properly.  I 
partitioned it with BL3 fdisk (PQMagic would not work at all with it) and 
could format with e2fsck and copy files, but DOS format acts oddly.  Files 
appear and disappear and turn to gibberish and the drive sometimes boots 
and sometime does not boot.  I assumed bad partition table.  It was given 
to me with no files on it, in an XP computer.

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