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Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz |
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Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) |
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Sat, 3 Jul 2004 02:42:38 +0200 |
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On Saturday 03 of July 2004 02:17, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On 2 Jul 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > You will find that the default_* files (i.e., the geometry from the
> > extended INT13 interface) match the values returned by HDIO_GETGEO.
>
> If my memory serves well, you wrote once long ago that your project needs
> the "legacy" value to make things work.
>
> Kernel 2.4 guessed usually legacy, right?
2.4 has drivers/ide/ide-geometry.c which is _exclusively_ for FS use,
IDE driver doesn't need it et all.
> Kernel 2.6 returns extended and it more upsets tools and users with
> trashed partitions.
2.6 returns "raw" IDE CHS not a BIOS translation.
I now think that Andries should have removed HDIO_GETGEO from
IDE driver _completely_ instead of only removing ide-geometry.c.
This can (and should) be still done.
Bartlomiej
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), (continued)
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Andries Brouwer, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Andries Brouwer, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Patrick J. LoPresti, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Anton Altaparmakov, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Patrick J. LoPresti, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics, Anthony Ewell, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics, Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff),
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <=
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Andrew Clausen, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Szakacsits Szabolcs, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Patrick J. LoPresti, 2004/07/03
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Andrew Clausen, 2004/07/02
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Anton Altaparmakov, 2004/07/03
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Andrew Clausen, 2004/07/03
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Anton Altaparmakov, 2004/07/03
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Andrew Clausen, 2004/07/03
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Patrick J. LoPresti, 2004/07/03
- Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff), Anton Altaparmakov, 2004/07/02