Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clipped disk reports clipped lba size | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:34:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Here is a patch to solve that. I am sure there is a more elegant solution, I guess we could add a "lba_size=" or something like that as a boot parameter. > The patch against 2.4.17 does this: if the geometry has been forced then use it to calculate the lba size and ignore the (possibly clipped) answer from the disk.
If you get the 2.4.18pre-ac patches that have the new IDE code in them this should already be covered, along with such nice details as 160Gb disks.
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