Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:01:05 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote:
> Well, I could patch it so it adds that one sector ;-) But that's not the > right way. The true number of sectors is 90069840, since 90069839 doesn't > divide by the number of *real* heads (6) and the number of recording zones > (15). So it needs fixing.
15 == 16 if 0 == 1 in realm of counting numbers.
Also geometry is a lie to begin with, so what is one more lie on top of another?
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development
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