Re: Intel ATA Ultra 82801EB Controller

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On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 11:59, Richard Heldmann wrote:
> Fedora FC2's hardware browser identifies my controller as an Intel
> 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage controller.
> 
> The sfdisk -l command when run as root returns:
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 14589 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>  
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1          0+      4       5-     40131    6  FAT16
> /dev/sda2   *      5   12038   12034   96663105    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3      12039   12051      13     104422+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4      12052   14588    2537   20378452+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5      12052+  14458    2407-  19334196   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6      14459+  14588     130-   1044193+  82  Linux swap
> Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than
> the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.
> [Use the --force option if you really want this]
> 
> Why are the devices listed as sda and not hda?  Should I correct it and how? Is the warning a problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 

Booting Knoppix 3.6 yields:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ su -
root@ttyp0[~]# sfdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 248 cylinders, 32 heads, 32 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 524288 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+    247     248-    126960    6  FAT16
/dev/sda2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

Disk /dev/hda: 14589 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1          0+      4       5-     40131    6  FAT16
/dev/hda2   *      5   12038   12034   96663105    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3      12039   12051      13     104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4      12052   14588    2537   20378452+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5      12052+  14458    2407-  19334196   83  Linux
/dev/hda6      14459+  14588     130-   1044193+  82  Linux swap

No warnings.  How do I reconcile this?  Or correct it?
Thanks,
Richard



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