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SubjectRe: C/H/S from user space
Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> It has been already tried years ago to eliminate this ridicle. The
> answer to your
> question is put bluntly: It's like that, because some kernel "prima
> ballerinas",
> whose names "relate to alternating current", will get at you with mock
> up somke
> and mirror woodo examples where it's supposed to be sooo required.

I myself have been trying to show why it is required. Unless I am wrong
about the msdos MBR code passing the CHS partition start values directly
to int 13 rather than computing them based on the LBA in the MBR and the
currently reported geometry from the bios, then fdisk does require the
correct bios geometry to maintain compatibility with msdos/windows.


My original point was that if it is required ( and since it is still in
the kernel, that seems to be the case ) then at least make sure it is
_correct_. Whether it is needed but wrong, or if it is simply not
needed, then it is silly to keep geometry in the kernel.

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