Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:45:03 -0600 | From | "Eric D. Mudama" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IDE disks show invalid geometries in /proc/ide/hd*/geometry |
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On 8/4/05, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > All of these numbers are virtual, since CHS is not really used anymore, as > we know. But, which of these fake CHS values (16383/16/63 | 65535/16/63 | > 1023/255/63) is the right one? 255/63/4982 is another matter, since it > [almost] matches the actual size of the disk while the other three are just > "for the bios".
What do you mean by right? Not one of those above values has any physical meaning....
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