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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 kernels misdetect harddisk geometry, 2.4 kernels are fine
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:49:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401164901.GE25502@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401192246.00719d71.vsu@altlinux.ru>

Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> In fact, this did not work correctly even in 2.4, except in some very
> limited circumstances: either hda only, or hda+hdb.  Even hda+hdc
> configuration was broken (hda was getting parameters from BIOS, but
> hdc was not).

What do MS-DOS and Windows do in the hda+hdc case?

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 14:45 2.6 kernels misdetect harddisk geometry, 2.4 kernels are fine Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-04-01 15:22 ` Sergey Vlasov
2004-04-01 16:49   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-04-01 22:44 ` Patrick J. LoPresti

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