In message <199904302251.SAA07883@ghost.whirlpool.com>, Andrew Gillham writes:
>> Well, for some reason, the BIOS thought my WD21600 was a ~500MB drive.
>> Any other ideas?
>
>Don't some fancy BIOSes read the geometry from the partition table?  Or
>am I just misremembering?

I don't know, but if that's true, it could explain it.  The numbers looked
like what sysinst reported for the geometry.  I just assumed the numbers
it displayed were okay because I didn't know the real ones offhand
and didn't feel like checking them.  I guess that was a bad idea. :)