From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Flavio Bruno Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:29:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311111929.08487.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031111115316.GB16163@win.tue.nl>
On Tuesday 11 of November 2003 12:53, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:41:58PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > In 2.6.x it doesn't even read BIOS info (which is wrong IMO, it should
> > do this but only as last resort - if partition can't be mounted).
>
> How can reading information that is not used by any kernel
> help in mounting a partition?
You are of course right, only ibm.c and nec98.c use HDIO_GETGEO.
> > Difference in CHS translation should matter only if you have some old DOS
> > partitions created using CHS information. Then you can force geometry
> > using boot parameter "hd?=". Unfortunately I've seen recently bugreport
> > when 2.4.20 (?) works and 2.6.x fails even with forced geometry.
>
> Fails? What do you mean?
Sorry, it was "hd.c instead of ide.c" problem.
> (Are you referring to the problem of finding the last cylinder?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-11 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-11-05 19:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-11 11:53 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-11 18:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2003-11-05 17:23 Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-05 17:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-05 17:57 ` Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-11 11:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-11 12:13 ` Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-11 16:21 ` bill davidsen
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