> On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Marty Leisner wrote:
>
> > I recently got a quantum bigfoot 6.2 gig IDE disk...
> >
> > Booting, the information has (this is 2.0.30):
> > hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/17152kB Cache, LBA, CHS=790/255/63
>
> Apparently this is a common problem with either some (E)IDE
> drives or the checking algorithm itself:
>
> hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, 1222MB w/76kB Cache, LBA, CHS=621/64/63
>
> It should read 128 Kb, not as big difference as yours though :)
Fireball gives that figure becauses it puts drives firmware in that
128 kB cache. If you check Fireball documentation from Quantum website
http://www.quantum.com/products/dpsg/fireballtm/q_fbl_sp.html look
at the bottom of the document.
-- Juhani Rautiainen jrauti@iki.fi