"Results 1 - 10 of about 25,100 for Seagate ST225", possibly the most
common 20MB 1/2 height MFM drive.

Google is my friend.  It could be your friend, too.

I seem to recall that LBA and fake geometry and related stunts could
be done on the controller.  At least I recall a "Promise" IDE
controller like that.
Inspect the controller card.  There will be a mfg name.  Maybe a model.
Try google.  With luck you'll find out what the jumpers mean, and you
could begin making progress, rather than poking around with a stick
at it.

Good luck.

Dave

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Daniel Malament <blue@anonix.net> wrote:
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>> holy cow.
>> of all the times NOT to post a dmesg!  (and fdisk output).  It

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