IDE driver + kernel compilation options == disc detection

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I would like somebody more experienced to help me, because even though I have read a lot about IDE kernel driver I didn't manage to find any answer for the question I describe below. I have asked for quite time on other groups but nobody helped me. I have gone through google on groups and even if the problem of disk geometry was discussed a lot I didn't find an answer.

My system is Debian Woody. May disks are both set to LBA and I don't change anything during experiment. On Ide0 and Ide1 there are two identical Samsung disks 120Gb. Both have identical parameters in Bios. Samsung documentation states that CHS=232632/16/63. On both are identical partions (sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk /dev/hdc).

Now I compile the kernel twice -- first time I use original config of Debian Woody, and then I start from scratch.
Kernel version is 2.4.18.

With first kernel (original from Debian Woody) discs are seen as:

hda: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232632/16/63
hdc: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232632/16/63

while on my kernel it looks like:

hda: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14596/255/63
hdc: 234493056 sectors (120060 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232632/16/63


Why during the second boot kernel didn't detect drive hda correctly? I think the ide driver in both kernels is identical, so why discs are seen differently? I know that disk geometry is only for lilo and [cfs]disk, but kernel should be deterministic and detect disks always the same...

I ask you to help me, because I've been searching for answer quite a long and no howtos, no lkml archives, no other resources gave me
any hint to get an answer.

Thank you in advance.

Leszek Dubiel
www.glass.biz
Poland

PS. I know that I can work around this problem, I know how to force cfdisk and lilo. The only thing I don't know is "WHY" they didn't get detected the same with both kernels.






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