Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:06:11 +0100 | From | Uwe Bonnes <> | Subject | Re: IDE Disk Geometry detection/default |
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mlord <mlord@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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". >
Hallo Mark,
normally the BIOS offers 3 posibilities to translate: - none - MSDOS-compatible - and one other
What about adding a kernel/module parameter where the User indicated what kind of translation he wishes?
Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
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