From: "Eric D. Mudama" <edmudama@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Mark Bellon <mbellon@mvista.com>,
Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE disks show invalid geometries in /proc/ide/hd*/geometry
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:45:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <311601c905080416456c92798f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508040800130.22272@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On 8/4/05, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> All of these numbers are virtual, since CHS is not really used anymore, as
> we know. But, which of these fake CHS values (16383/16/63 | 65535/16/63 |
> 1023/255/63) is the right one? 255/63/4982 is another matter, since it
> [almost] matches the actual size of the disk while the other three are just
> "for the bios".
What do you mean by right? Not one of those above values has any
physical meaning....
--eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-04 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-29 0:03 [PATCH] disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts Mark Bellon
2005-07-29 0:13 ` Nathan Scott
2005-07-29 0:15 ` Mark Bellon
2005-07-29 0:19 ` Mark Bellon
2005-07-29 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-29 0:29 ` Mark Bellon
2005-07-29 0:46 ` Mark Bellon
2005-07-29 13:46 ` Jan Kara
2005-07-29 15:47 ` Mark Bellon
2005-07-29 17:21 ` [PATCH] (REPOST/REVISION) " Mark Bellon
2005-07-29 22:03 ` [PATCH] (TAKE 3) " Mark Bellon
2005-08-02 21:27 ` [PATCH] IDE disks show invalid geometries in /proc/ide/hd*/geometry Mark Bellon
2005-08-03 7:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2005-08-03 16:54 ` Mark Bellon
2005-08-03 17:19 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-03 17:37 ` Mark Bellon
2005-08-03 18:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-03 18:32 ` Mark Bellon
2005-08-03 18:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-04 6:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-08-04 16:44 ` Mark Bellon
2005-08-04 23:45 ` Eric D. Mudama [this message]
2005-08-08 16:02 ` [PATCH] (TAKE 3) disk quotas fail when /etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/mounts Jan Kara
2005-08-08 17:55 ` [PATCH] PPC64: large INITRD causes kernel not to boot Mark Bellon
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