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From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Flavio Bruno Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:46:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111114649.GA16163@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031105172310.GE5304@conectiva.com.br>

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:23:10PM -0200, Flavio Bruno Leitner wrote:

> Upgrading from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 the CHS information for the same hardware 
> changed. This behaviour is correct? 
> 
> Using 2.4:
> hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA (33)
> 
> Using 2.6:
> hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA (33)

Yes, correct in the sense that it is not wrong.
Probably your disk reports 15 and 2.4 invented 255.

CHS is something that stopped being meaningful a decade ago.
Today it is random garbage, to be ignored whenever possible.
Don't worry about CHS when you don't have problems.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-05 17:23 IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6 Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-05 17:29 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-05 17:57   ` Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-11 11:46 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2003-11-11 12:13   ` Flavio Bruno Leitner
2003-11-11 16:21   ` bill davidsen
     [not found] <20031105184203.GG5304@conectiva.com.br>
2003-11-05 19:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-11-11 11:53   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-11-11 18:29     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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