From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/ide/hd?/settings obsolete in 2.6.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 17:21:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115310081.19842.89.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050505153807.GB17724@animx.eu.org>
> As stated in my last email, I am using EDD. I only need the legacy heads
> and sectors. I can figure out the cylinders by that and the size of the
> disk.
Which legacy size do you want though - the partition label, the disks
opinion this week or the CMOS. They can all be different. Linux used to
play "guess roughly what Windows might guess".
> I have some utils (mkdosfs comes to mind) that do not let the user specify
> heads/sectors/cyls (it doesn't use cyl actually).
Presumably they need to follow the MS sequence of guesses then, even on
non PC systems ? So partition table, cmos, drive in that order if I
remember rightly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-05 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-05 0:48 Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 10:10 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-05-05 11:13 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 12:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-05-05 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 15:38 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 16:21 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-05-05 16:33 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 17:58 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 20:53 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-05 15:33 ` Wakko Warner
2005-05-05 15:53 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-05-05 16:20 ` Wakko Warner
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