From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>,
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
bug-parted@gnu.org, "K.G." <k_guillaume@libertysurf.fr>,
Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.de>, Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clausen@gnu.org, buytenh@gnu.org,
msw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff)
Date: 03 Jul 2004 09:59:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5gekntqjnc.fsf@patl=users.sf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040703005555.GA20808@apps.cwi.nl>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> writes:
> (ii) Various people talk about moving disks between machines.
> Such people have not understood the main fact here:
> the geometry is not a property of the disk but of the BIOS.
Um... Yes, right, exactly, very good. So you *must* obtain the
geometry from the BIOS and not from anything you happen to find on the
disk. Which is sort of my entire point.
> It is futile to hope for a construction that will work across
> different machines with different BIOSes.
Simply false. "modprobe edd.o" followed by an examination of the
fields under /sys/firmware/edd will give you precisely the right
values.
- Pat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-03 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <s5gwu1mwpus.fsf@patl=users.sf.net>
2004-07-02 16:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 16:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:28 ` dwm
2004-07-02 21:12 ` parted maintainership Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 17:04 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:12 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 18:45 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407022025200.28638@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-02 19:57 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 0:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 0:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03 0:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03 1:57 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:59 ` Patrick J. LoPresti [this message]
2004-07-05 12:14 ` Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics for 2.6 (was: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics) Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 13:10 ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 13:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 13:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 14:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 19:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 21:08 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 21:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-06 0:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06 1:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-06 18:56 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-07 1:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-07 11:14 ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-07 11:51 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06 8:33 ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 18:09 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 18:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03 3:00 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Andrew Clausen
2004-07-02 23:55 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:56 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 2:54 ` Andrew Clausen
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407030843400.2415@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 12:44 ` Andrew Clausen
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407031535230.6149@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 15:02 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 14:42 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 1:35 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 12:33 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03 14:15 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 14:45 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 15:00 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 20:12 ` Andries Brouwer
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