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From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Rupa Schomaker <rupa-list+linux-kernel@rupa.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1
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On 31 Jan 2001, Rupa Schomaker wrote:

> But now it doesn't matter.  The drive was tainted (fdisk run while
> attached to the mainboard controller) and now that geometry is
> "stuck".  <shrug>  I was mostly explaining why it is nice to get the
> same geometry on two identical drives (RAID1 is easier for the human
> to deal with).

It doesn't but I got out of the geometry business two+ years ago...
Andries (Mr. FDisk) Brouwer is the man......

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development

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