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SubjectRe: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:06:55PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 10:20 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > I thought that C/H/S addressing was purely a function of int 13, not the
> > hardware interface? If it is a function of some older hardware
> > interfaces, then we are still talking about two different, and likely
> > incompatible geometries: the one the disk reports, and the one the bios
> > reports. The values in the MBR must be the values the bios reports.
>
> We have at least three
>
> Disk reported C/H/S
> BIOS reported C/H/S (hda/hdb only)
> Actual C/H/S (if it exists)
> Partition table C/H/S
>
> A partitioning tool needs to know
> Disk reported C/H/S
> Partition table C/H/S
> Preferably BIOS reported C/H/S if there is one
>
> The partition table C/H/S is on disk so trivial
> The disk reported ones are in the identify block so could be pulled via
> /proc and sysfs
> The BIOS one is PC specific low memory poking around

On i386 and x86_64, the edd module reports the 2 types of C/H/S values
as BIOS knows them, in /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev*/

legacy_max_cylinder, legacy_max_head, and legacy_max_sectors_per_track
are int13 AH=08h values.

default_cylinders, default_heads, and default_sectors_per_track are
int13 AH=48h values.

Files not in that directory mean the value reported by BIOS was zero.

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Matt Domsch
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