Forcing geometry (was: Re: parted source access)

[Patrick Leslie Polzer]

Hello Jeremy,

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:47:26 -0500
Jeremy Moles <Jeremy Moles <address@hidden>> wrote:

 | Perhaps you can add the ability to force parted to use certain disk
 | geometry, useful in our case (and I'm sure you'll be familiar with
 | this :)) when recovery partitions--in particular, IBM's--need exact
 | geometry offsets and the hd firmware reports this wrong, propagating the
 | "wrong" geometry up into parted and thus written out to disk upon close.
Forcing geometry would also be beneficial to GNU fdisk to implement
this legacy fdisk functionality.  Perhaps you should talk to Harley
(address@hidden) about this.

Are you sure the firmware reports it wrong?  Does your machine support
EDD?

 | I modified libparted/linux.c a bit
You do not seem to be working with the latest source.
This file resides in the directory /libparted/arch now.

Leslie

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