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parted package

  1. Bug #874698
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 874698

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Michael Lueck (mlueck) wrote :

The HDD BIOS settings in my computer are as follows:

ATA/IDE Mode Native (can not change this)
Configure SATA As AHCI
S.M.A.R.T. Enabled
SATA 1 - 4 They just autodetect - can not even arrow to these, cursor position skips over them
Hard Disk Pre-Delay 0

In order to be able to change the ATA/IDE Mode, I needed to adjust the AHCI mode down to IDE, then I am able to adjust the ATA/IDE Mode setting and select between Native and Legacy.

None of the settings allow for manual adjustment of the drive geometry settings. All possible modes the BIOS support always force auto-detect of the geometry details.