From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262508AbUDAQtp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:49:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262514AbUDAQto (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:49:44 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:15253 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262508AbUDAQtF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:49:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:49:01 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Sergey Vlasov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6 kernels misdetect harddisk geometry, 2.4 kernels are fine Message-ID: <20040401164901.GE25502@mail.shareable.org> References: <406C2AFB.1030101@gmx.net> <20040401192246.00719d71.vsu@altlinux.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040401192246.00719d71.vsu@altlinux.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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