I recently sent an inquiry to this list about fdisk being unable to seek one of my two basically identical disks. Both are Western Digital 250Gb disks. Unable to seek on /dev/sdb This disk operates just fine when booting Fedora Core 6. However, as soon as I boot Fedora 9, I get the above error. testdisk seems to think /dev/sdb is only 137gb, and hdparm confirms something strange. Here is the output from /dev/sda, which is operating correctly in Fedora 9: [root@amd64 ~]# hdparm -I /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: WDC WD2500JS-00MHB0 Serial Number: WD-WCANK1038714 Firmware Revision: 02.01C03 Standards: Supported: 7 6 5 4 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 488397168 device size with M = 1024*1024: 238475 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 250059 MBytes (250 GB) Here is the output from /dev/sdb: [root@amd64 ~]# hdparm -I /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0 Serial Number: WD-WCANKC798286 Firmware Revision: 02.01C03 Standards: Supported: 7 6 5 4 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 268435455 device size with M = 1024*1024: 131071 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 137438 MBytes (137 GB) Why is the LBA48 size not the same for both disks, and how can I correct this? Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
