From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
Cc: ntfs-dev <linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Geometry determination
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:57:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080572234.5545.23.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0403291512030.6684-100000@mlf.linux.rulez.org>
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:48, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>
> > I have been experimenting a little with what Windows / Linux 2.4 / Linux
> > 2.6 think the geometry of a couple of HDs is and the results are not
> > very promising. )-:
> >
> > Using Linux 2.4, HDIO_GETGEO ioctl, I get the same Heads and Sectors per
> > Track as Windows on both HDs I tried it on. This is the good news.
> > I.e. at least on those two disks mkntfs as it stands now would create
> > Windows bootable partitions.
> >
> > The bad news is that Linux 2.4, HDIO_GETGEO ioctl returns wrong values
>
> You mean 2.6?
Yes, sorry, I do mean 2.6.
Best regards,
Anton
--
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
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2004-03-29 13:48 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-03-29 14:41 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-03-29 15:02 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-04-01 23:06 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-03-29 14:57 ` Anton Altaparmakov [this message]
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