True. Perhaps the BIOS is having trouble.
Many boards require a BIOS upgrade to correctly cope
with 37GB drives.
>
> > Why is it that -I returns the vendor
> > information in BE byte pairs?
>
> That is what the disk returns.
>
> > spazz:~# hdparm -I /dev/hda
> >
> > /dev/hda:
..
> So, I was too optimistic when I said that "-I" gave data straight
> from the disk - it contains strange nonsense as well.
Yeah.. I'm not too hot over that either.
The '-i' was supposed to be a boot-time snapshot
of the drive identity, but in recent kernels it seems
to be becoming more dynamic (in the IDE driver). What a shame.
And '-i' was supposed to be the current info,
but it has been messed up somewhat. I may fix that
in a new version of hdparm, sometime next century.
>This "LBA CHS" junk must go.
>
> Andries
Yup. I agree.
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