From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:24:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308110124.48723.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10308101327590.12816-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
On Sunday 10 of August 2003 22:29, you wrote:
> Besure to force all devices to LBA only because wrapping the cylinder
> count tends to make a mess.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --a
Ahhh... you mean not doing set_geometry() for LBA disks (we currently don't
do it only for LBA-48 disks) because for large disks the cylinder count wraps
and its not a nice thing, right?
cheers,
--bartlomiej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-10 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-08 23:24 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-08-10 20:29 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-08-10 23:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2003-08-10 23:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-08-11 12:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-08-11 12:46 ` Jeff Garzik
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