[nothing..] that's not much :)
>2) what the values for heads, cylinders and sectors should really be?
> The DPT configuration utility doesn't seem to present any sane values.
> only the DPT bios reports 65535/64/32 which is meaningless and no where
> near 104Gig as well.
I have no idea, but perhaps the Linux kernel will work something
out for you. Fdisk (and the kernel) take CHS from the partition table,
if a valid partition table is present. I assume your drives have been
used before, so there might be old information on it.
Wipe out the partition table on the disks with something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=1
Then reboot, and try again ..
HTH
Mike.
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