[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Parted gets wrong geometry, hangs writing filesystem
|
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
|
Subject: |
Re: Parted gets wrong geometry, hangs writing filesystem |
|
Date: |
Fri, 04 May 2001 22:36:03 +1000 |
Matt Wilson wrote:
> EDD 3.0 will be extending int13 ah=48h to include the PCI bus and
> device type information along with drive geometry. Draft is at:
Interesting.
> Too bad this is just a draft and it will be a while before we see
> firmware that does this...
Everyone will be using LBA, anyway.
Actually, the problem before wasn't a BIOS thing, oops. The BIOS
doesn't come into it. It's either a Linux driver bug, or a Linux communicating
with
Parted bug.
(Linux doesn't get the disk size from the bios)
Andrew Clausen
Message not available