Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:38:53 +0200 (IST) | From | Dan Aloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Taisuke Yamada wrote:
> > > > > This patch is not good...[snip] > > > > > > Please retest with hdc=... > > > > Ok, I've booted without the parameter, and without the jumper on > > clipping mode (I'll do it tommorow, it's 1AM now) got something > > similiar to what you've written, and everything looks ok. > > Great, so it worked. > > # Since it worked, please discard my message I sent you to wait. > > > Now it reports 90069839 - one sector less. Any damage risk to > > my filesystems? > > Hmm, that will be trouble if you access that last sector. I'll > take a look at it after I came back from my work (It's 8AM now > and got to go to work :-).
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.
-- Dan Aloni dax@karrde.org
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