From: Josep Lladonosa i Capell <jep@jep.net.dhis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.4.x kernels, big ide disks and old bios
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:56:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C285B40.91A83EC7@jep.dhis.org> (raw)
Hello,
the problem is this:
bios only supports disks up to 32 Gb.
hard disk is 60 Gb.
kernel is 2.4.17
hard disk reports its correct size when reading parameters from the
disk, not from the bios
verd:/proc/ide/hdc# cat geometry
physical 65530/16/63
logical 119150/16/63
when booting (dmesg):
hdc: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: 66055247 sectors (33820 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63,
UDMA(33)
Linux adopts the 'false' geometry (65530/16/63) ) to bypass the bios
boot.
I know that there are patches for 2.2 kernels and 2.3 kernels, so as
linux adopts the logical geometry (a kiddy trick with lba size). They
are very simple (a line), but 2.4 ide implementation is (a little more)
complicated. Any patch?
Bon Nadal - Merry Christmas
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Salutacions...Josep
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/1065/
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next reply other threads:[~2001-12-25 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-25 10:56 Josep Lladonosa i Capell [this message]
2001-12-25 14:10 ` 2.4.x kernels, big ide disks and old bios Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2001-12-25 19:09 ` James Stevenson
2001-12-26 16:33 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-27 13:14 ` James Stevenson
2001-12-27 18:51 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-27 19:53 ` Ido Diamant
2001-12-27 22:41 ` Guest section DW
2001-12-27 23:04 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-28 0:06 ` [PATCH] " Eric Lammerts
2001-12-28 3:29 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-30 1:40 ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-28 21:52 ` Jorge Nerin
2001-12-30 9:33 ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-25 16:38 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-25 22:52 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-12-26 9:28 ` Josep Lladonosa i Capell
2001-12-26 10:39 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2001-12-26 2:12 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-30 2:47 Andries.Brouwer
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