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DateWed, 7 Jan 1998 09:59:06 +0100 (CET)
FromDaniel Ryde <>
SubjectRe: IDE Disk Geometry detection/default
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, mlord wrote:

> So.. fix it!

Sorry, I have too little knowledge and time to do that.
Kernel hacking is not my strongest part, so I better stick to testing and
bug reporting. Maby somewhere in the future I will get some time and space
to dig deeper into the kernel source.

> All of this only affects new (unpartitioned) drives anyway.
> Drives with at least one existing partition are always handled
> correctly even today.

Well, no. If I partitionate a new drive on the secondary interface and
move it to the primary, it will change it's geometry. Not good.


/Ryde


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