On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:02:29PM +0100, Danilo Godec wrote: > You can use the 'hdX=cylinders,heads,sectors' kernel parameter to make the > kernel see the second drive the way you want it to see (I use this a > lot) ie. identical to the first one. I've been struggling to get read performance out of a bizarrely underperforming ATA100 7200RPM drive, and tried the latest IDE patch from linuxdiskcert.org. When reconfiguring the kernel, there was a new option 'Auto-Geometry Resizing support'. From the description of the option, sounds like it lets you change geometry on the fly. No docs in the help though. Anyone know the skinny here? Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html