Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Jan 1998 10:36:47 -0500 | From | mlord <> | Subject | IDE Disk Geometry detection/default |
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Daniel Ryde wrote: >
[general annoyance at kernel not being able to probe for geometries of IDE drives not on primary interface].
So.. fix it!
I would really love somebody to come forth with *working* code to ask the BIOS for disk geometries at boot time, and squirrel that info away for the IDE driver to use. You do the first part, and I'll gladly add the second.
Alternatively, in this day and age we could just have the Linux IDE driver default to "best-translation" for unknown drives, rather than the current default of "no-translation".
All of this only affects new (unpartitioned) drives anyway. Drives with at least one existing partition are always handled correctly even today.
Comments?
-- mlord@pobox.com The Linux IDE guy
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