From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: micah milano <micaho@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SiI3112 Serial ATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 incorrect geometry detected
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 00:44:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096155867.17188.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04092515157e9b72ef@mail.gmail.com>
On Sad, 2004-09-25 at 23:15, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> - BIOS CHS is _useless_ for IDE driver
> - IDE driver returns different geometry for 2.[2,4,6].x kernels
> - Andries removed ide-geometry.c in 2.5 but didn't HDIO_GETGEO ioctl
> - BIOS CHS is available through EDD driver now
(Occasionally 8)
> - this is a parted problem
(and fixed in parted patches)
> - remove CHS info from IDE printks and /proc/ide/
> - add BLKGETSTART ioctl for getting partition's start sector
> (this is the only legitimate use of HDIO_GETGEO currently)
If you drop the CHS/LBA/.. information from the printk's it might be
nice to replace ith with "in CHS" "in LBA28" "in LBA48" mode information
since that is the only thing it really told people.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-26 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-25 19:14 SiI3112 Serial ATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 incorrect geometry detected micah milano
2004-09-25 21:03 ` micah milano
2004-09-25 22:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-25 23:44 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-26 10:29 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-09-26 10:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-27 15:50 ` micah milano
2004-09-27 19:31 ` Andries Brouwer
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