[Rupa Schomaker]
> In my case, I have two identical Maxtor drives, but they reported
> different geometry.
[...]
> I'm doing RAID1 and it is really nice to have the same geometry so
> that the partition info is the same between the two drives. Makes
> life easier.
If that's what you needed, you could have used 'dd' to copy the
partition table from one drive to the other. Easier than going in and
re-cabling just to fool your BIOS.
Peter