Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry |
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Andries,
If CHS is truly meaningless (less drives smaller than 8.4GB) why can we not specify forced LBA geometry reporting? Also any drive supporting 48-bit feature sets are forbidden to use CHS.
Just a comment, not bait for a lesson or lecture :-)
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:47:16PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote: > > > Question is - what is determining that initial value that becomes the "logical" > > CHS, and does it matter? > > No, it does not matter at all. > CHS are meaningless numbers not used anywhere anymore in Linux. > > If you want to influence what geometry *fdisk will use, give it > the appropriate options or commands. No need to go via the kernel. > But only in rare cases is it necessary to worry about geometry. > > Andries > > > Aside - RedHat has dropped cfdisk from util-linux in their distro versions 7.2 ff. > > Given the bad words said about fdisk, what did cfdisk do to be ostracised? > > RedHat thought cfdisk is buggy. > They were mistaken. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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