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SubjectRe: IDE Disk Geometry detection/default
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
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