From: "Frantisek Rysanek" <Frantisek.Rysanek@post.cz>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux vs. DOSEMU geometry (Was: Re: DosEMU, Ghost: VGA screen garbled...)
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:52:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACA86D9.20700.BCB6CA@Frantisek.Rysanek.post.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3d607cc0909240842h3fbc2350j9de568656db10577@mail.gmail.com>
On 24 Sep 2009 at 17:42, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> > you mean completely bogus?
>
> Well it may not be completely bogus as you explained -- however things
> have changed in the Linux kernel too. particularly from 2.4 to 2.6.
>
oh...
> I have a 4G USB key that I used to test "wholedisk" with a
> preformatted geometry (as I could see in the DOS boot sector) of
> CHS=978/128/63; however HDIO_GETGEO reported CHS=1017/125/62. This
> value was invented by setsize() in the Linux kernel's
> drivers/scsi/scsicam.c.
>
I see...
Thanks for the update :-) It's indeed been many months since the last
time I bothered to investigate :-) Now I fully approve of your
approach. Good luck and thanks for the great job that you're doing.
Frank Rysanek
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-05 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 22:47 DosEMU, Ghost: VGA screen garbled Frantisek Rysanek
2009-09-15 6:46 ` Frantisek Hanzlik
2009-09-15 7:41 ` Frantisek Rysanek
2009-09-15 11:53 ` Richard
2009-09-17 9:06 ` Frantisek Rysanek
2009-09-18 16:00 ` Bart Oldeman
2009-09-18 19:11 ` Alain Mouette
2009-09-20 20:25 ` DOSEMU VGA graphics on a FrameBuffer (Was: Re: DosEMU, Ghost: VGA screen garbled...) Frantisek Rysanek
2009-09-21 18:58 ` Alain Mouette
2009-09-20 20:05 ` Linux vs. DOSEMU geometry " Frantisek Rysanek
2009-09-24 15:42 ` Bart Oldeman
2009-10-05 21:52 ` Frantisek Rysanek [this message]
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