From: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.de>,
bug-parted@gnu.org, Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 13:00:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040703030022.GD630@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5gvfh6xklo.fsf@patl=users.sf.net>
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:57:59PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > It is not only not wrong but completely correct. The geometry is
> > really something completely made up nowadays. Nothing really needs
> > it at the low level.
>
> Wrong. The Windows boot loader still reads sectors using the legacy
> BIOS interface. If not for this unfortunate fact, this entire issue
> would be moot.
Have you got any evidence? Is there any way I can force Windows to
use CHS?
Cheers,
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-03 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <s5gwu1mwpus.fsf@patl=users.sf.net>
2004-07-02 16:17 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 16:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:28 ` dwm
2004-07-02 21:12 ` parted maintainership Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 17:04 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:12 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 18:45 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407022025200.28638@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-02 19:57 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 0:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 0:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03 0:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03 1:57 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:59 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-05 12:14 ` Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics for 2.6 (was: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics) Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 13:10 ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 13:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 13:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 14:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 19:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 21:08 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 21:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-06 0:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06 1:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-06 18:56 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-07 1:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-07 11:14 ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-07 11:51 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06 8:33 ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 18:09 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 18:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03 3:00 ` Andrew Clausen [this message]
2004-07-02 23:55 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:56 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 2:54 ` Andrew Clausen
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407030843400.2415@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 12:44 ` Andrew Clausen
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407031535230.6149@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 15:02 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 14:42 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 1:35 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 12:33 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03 14:15 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 14:45 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 15:00 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 20:12 ` Andries Brouwer
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