From: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
Cc: Apurva Mehta <apurva@gmx.net>, Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
bug-parted@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:27:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031203232726.GC466@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0312031316550.28298-100000@mlf.linux.rulez.org>
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:07:06PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > Can you elaborate? Autodetect what? Autodetect if the BIOS supports LBA?
>
> Autodetect to boot from the boot controller's miniport driver or using
> BIOS. It should have been mentioned in one of the Microsoft articles I
> referred.
I'm totally confused.
What's a miniport driver? What is a boot controller? Do these have
anything to do with LBA?
Also, you say "autodetect"... you mean it is making a decision to use
some method (not that I understand this). How does it make the decision?
The article doesn't mention "Linear", "LBA", "boot controller" or
"miniport driver" at all. (I was looking at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=98080 - is this the right one?)
The question I believe I asked was: how does the Windows installation
software decide whether to use LBA or CHS? Is this an answer to
this question?
Cheers,
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-03 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-28 4:58 Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX Apurva Mehta
2003-11-28 14:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 2:22 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-29 5:16 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-29 9:18 ` Sven Luther
2003-11-29 12:41 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 11:44 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 15:19 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 12:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 13:50 ` John Bradford
2003-11-29 14:04 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-11-29 17:01 ` Sven Luther
2003-11-29 22:14 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 22:44 ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30 0:39 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 9:35 ` Sergey Vlasov
2003-11-29 22:31 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30 8:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-30 7:38 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 10:40 ` John Bradford
2003-11-30 11:24 ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30 13:48 ` John Bradford
2003-11-30 17:22 ` Sven Luther
2003-11-30 23:51 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30 22:54 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-29 22:27 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30 0:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 11:10 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 13:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 12:34 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-11-30 15:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-29 22:33 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-11-30 9:16 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 11:05 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 11:28 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 11:54 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 13:07 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 23:27 ` Andrew Clausen [this message]
2003-12-03 21:55 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-12-03 23:47 ` bill davidsen
[not found] <200311300220.hAU2K0dr019280@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
2003-11-30 2:22 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2003-11-30 13:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-30 13:58 ` John Bradford
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-30 7:08 Norman Diamond
2003-11-30 7:08 Norman Diamond
2003-11-30 12:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-03 11:06 ` Andrew Clausen
2003-12-03 14:42 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-03 23:11 ` Andrew Clausen
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