Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:18:38AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> BTW: I've found out how LSI logic BIOS geometry translation works
> with (guessing) and without existing partition table. That might be
> an option
> for Seabios to implement.
> @Kevin: What do you think?

SeaBIOS has an algorithm for guessing the virtual disk geometry (see
src/block.c:get_translation).  If you have an improvement to that
algorithm, please send a patch.

Note that the physical disk geometry is obtained from the drive itself
(where possible).

-Kevin