Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:13:08 -0200 | From | Flavio Bruno Leitner <> | Subject | Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6 |
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:23:10PM -0200, Flavio Bruno Leitner wrote: > > > Upgrading from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 the CHS information for the same hardware > > changed. This behaviour is correct? > > > > Using 2.4: > > hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA (33) > > > > Using 2.6: > > hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA (33) > > Yes, correct in the sense that it is not wrong. > Probably your disk reports 15 and 2.4 invented 255. > > CHS is something that stopped being meaningful a decade ago. > Today it is random garbage, to be ignored whenever possible. > Don't worry about CHS when you don't have problems.
Parted was complaining about this change but I still have to check with version of parted they used. Anyway, it's booting and working normaly.
Regards,
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