Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:53:41 +0200 | | From | Seewer Philippe <> | | Subject | Re: Disk geometry from /sys | |
Mark Lord wrote:
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> The earliest IDE drives for Compaq used only CHS sector addressing mode.
>
> Within four years, though, all new drives had support for the more
> sensible linear block addressing (LBA) mode, as well.
>
> LBA has been mandatory in new drives since the early 1990s,
> so there's really no point to CHS addressing any more,
> except when fiddling with MS-DOS style partition tables
> (which have both CHS and LBA values stored inside).
Sorry, can't resist that quip here... Many of the well known x86-based
OS', OS-installers and even bootloaders from this millenium trusted the
partition tables c/h/s values to match the bios... causing havoc say
with PATA drives atached to SATA connectors.
If that weren't the case I guess Linux could have get rid of c/h/s a
looong time ago. Hmmm... maybe its time?
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