> It appears that your BIOS is old enough to on see 2.1 GB drives.
> 4092,16,63 is exactly the values for the 2.1 GB.
>
> Note that you can pass the hardcode values to the kernel in the append
> line of lilo.conf hda=6780,16,63 and you will need to have linear define
> also if the LBA translation is not used.
I'll try to play around with my LILO settings tonight.
I was aware of the possibility of setting the geometry manually, but
since it worked ok on 2.1.131 I wondered if the new results are
a bug or not.
BTW: LBA is used in the BIOS on this drive
Andries asked me about hdparm -i (-I) results and
they seemed to be the same in both 2.1.131 and 2.2.0.pre5/6
I posted them onto the kernel mailing list
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