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Re: Forcing geometry (was: Re: parted source access)
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Harley D. Eades III |
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Re: Forcing geometry (was: Re: parted source access) |
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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:56:47 -0600 |
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 00:36 +0100, Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote:
> 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.
Could you explain this further and in allot of detail :) I am unfortantly
not understanding what "forcing a certain geom" means. :) By what
criteria do we base this geometery on?
Cheers
Harley
Re: parted source access, Patrick Leslie Polzer, 2006/01/23