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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 03:44:41 -0600
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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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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[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
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