Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Geometry determination | | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:57:15 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:48, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > I have been experimenting a little with what Windows / Linux 2.4 / Linux > > 2.6 think the geometry of a couple of HDs is and the results are not > > very promising. )-: > > > > Using Linux 2.4, HDIO_GETGEO ioctl, I get the same Heads and Sectors per > > Track as Windows on both HDs I tried it on. This is the good news. > > I.e. at least on those two disks mkntfs as it stands now would create > > Windows bootable partitions. > > > > The bad news is that Linux 2.4, HDIO_GETGEO ioctl returns wrong values > > You mean 2.6?
Yes, sorry, I do mean 2.6.
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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