Re: [PATCH] 2.5.29 IDE 110

Petr Vandrovec
2002-08-01T16:51:44Z

On 1 Aug 02 at 2:40, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
> - Eliminate support for "sector remapping". loop devices can handle
> stuff like that. All the custom DOS high system memmory loaded
> BIOS workaround tricks are obsolete right now. If anywhere it should
> be the FAT filesystem code which should be clever enough to deal with
> it by adjusting it's read/write methods.

Hi Marcin,
I'm using this on one system here - it has BIOS without LBA32, and
without support for >30GB disks, but I needed to put large disk with
already existing system to it, and using some disk manager was only
choice (EZDrive, using 0_to_1 remap)... I know that 0_to_1 remap
is broken for nr_sectors > 1, but it is hard to use loop device if
system does not come up without boot manager at all.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz