Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 1996 22:28:36 -0700 | From | "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <> | Subject | Re: My SCSI HD has 34 heads, not 255... |
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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:48:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Laufer <laufer@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
The correct translations are allright, but IMO it couldn`t be that someone must rebuild his disk only of this changes. Why can't the aha152x driver accept the values of the partition-table it gets from the Bios?!
Linux could use the incorrect translation, but the AHA152X's onboard BIOS will not, which will leave the disk unbootable and not suitable for any operating system that consults the AHA152X's BIOS to determine the translation. The partition table was created incorrectly for that controller, due to a buggy development kernel. That is unfortunate, and the person who was impacted by this has a workaround -- his modified source to the driver. Perpetuating that bug is not a good idea. There are very few SCSI controllers that will adapt to whatever they find in the partition table.
Leonard
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