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Actually it would seem this is just Andre's, not so subtle, way of trying to prove that his ATA133/48-bit addressing patches need included in 2.4. -Jim Chris Ball wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:14:32PM -0700, Benjamin S Carrell wrote: > >>I would think that you lose that space to formatting >> > > That would be irrelevant. We're looking at the kernel's summation of > the geometry, not the filesystem's description of usable space. > > >>(would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?) >> > > No, the kernel tends not to rely on the BIOS for geometry. Which is > usually very wise. > > >>but I stand open for correction. >> > > Same here. It's always a good idea. :-) > > Is this perhaps Maxtor providing their own 'non-standard'[1] definition > of gigabyte, rather than a technical issue? > > - Chris. > > [1]: (viz. 'wrong') > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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