Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:46:49 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6 |
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:23:10PM -0200, Flavio Bruno Leitner wrote:
> Upgrading from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 the CHS information for the same hardware > changed. This behaviour is correct? > > Using 2.4: > hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA (33) > > Using 2.6: > hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA (33)
Yes, correct in the sense that it is not wrong. Probably your disk reports 15 and 2.4 invented 255.
CHS is something that stopped being meaningful a decade ago. Today it is random garbage, to be ignored whenever possible. Don't worry about CHS when you don't have problems.
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