From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265812AbUGCDBG (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:01:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265831AbUGCDBG (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:01:06 -0400 Received: from mail020.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.131]:52615 "EHLO mail020.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265812AbUGCDBE (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:01:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 13:00:22 +1000 From: Andrew Clausen To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , Andries Brouwer , Steffen Winterfeldt , bug-parted@gnu.org, Thomas Fehr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Message-ID: <20040703030022.GD630@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en,pt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:57:59PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > It is not only not wrong but completely correct. The geometry is > > really something completely made up nowadays. Nothing really needs > > it at the low level. > > Wrong. The Windows boot loader still reads sectors using the legacy > BIOS interface. If not for this unfortunate fact, this entire issue > would be moot. Have you got any evidence? Is there any way I can force Windows to use CHS? Cheers, Andrew