Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6

[Flavio Bruno Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 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.

Parted was complaining about this change but I still have to check with 
version of parted they used. Anyway, it's booting and working normaly.

Regards,

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Flávio Bruno Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br>
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