From: "Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau" <mfld.fr@gmail.com>
To: Paul Osmialowski <pawelo@king.net.pl>
Cc: ELKS <Linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cannot boot the real thing from HDD
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 10:35:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3b14b87-085b-25f0-e704-4a09f5c4cb4d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1.2002051633540.9033@localhost.localdomain>
As you want Sir... :-)
Renamed 'track' to 'cylinder' in commit:
https://github.com/elks-org/elks/commit/6b06204d2eb3a312bc13a5225dd93693dbd352d0
MFLD
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Paul Osmialowski wrote:
>
>> Pressed send too fast.
>>
>> Tracks usually means cylinders * heads.
>> Heads usually means tracks per cylinder.
>>
>> Still, to avoid confusions like that, this option should be renamed to
>> 'cylinders' and accept relevant part of C/H/S geometry.
>>
>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Paul Osmialowski wrote:
>>
>>> Also I think the name of config option in kernel configuration is
>>> misleading. Tracks refers to number of tracks per cylinder which is heads
>>> * sectors. I assume what this option really expects is 'cylinders', and
>>> IMO should be named that way.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Paul
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2020-01-24 21:05 ` Cannot boot the real thing from HDD Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
2020-01-30 19:51 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-01-30 21:43 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
2020-02-01 10:28 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
2020-02-03 16:59 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-03 18:52 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
2020-02-03 22:05 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-03 22:09 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-05 15:37 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-08 9:35 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau [this message]
2020-02-08 12:58 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-05 19:26 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
2020-02-05 23:45 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-06 10:07 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-08 13:08 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-10 23:38 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-11 20:38 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
2020-02-12 19:39 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
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2020-02-17 21:24 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
2020-02-17 21:27 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-17 21:34 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-20 23:21 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-22 16:24 ` Derek Johansen
2020-02-22 16:38 ` Jody Bruchon
2020-02-22 17:19 ` Derek Johansen
2020-02-22 21:27 ` Paul Osmialowski
2020-02-21 9:11 ` Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau
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