From: "Seewer Philippe" <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch>
To: "Phillip Susi" <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:35:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F206EC.2050906@bfh.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F0DFCC.5020404@cfl.rr.com>
Phillip Susi wrote:
> linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>
>> You can make your own:
>>
>> Pretend a sector is 512 bytes.
>> Use the maximum number of cylinders of either 65535 or 1024
>> Use the maximum number of sectors up to 255
>> Use the maxumum number of heads up to 255
>>
>>
>> Try the above with 1024 cylinders first. If it doesn't fit, use
>> 65535. That's all the BIOS does. It's just used to fit the
>> stuff into registers for 16-bit BIOS calls (see int 0x13).
>>
>>
>
>
> Actually, different bioses do it in different ways, that is just one way
> ( and possibly the most popular ). The same bios can even do it
> differently depending on what options are selected in the bios setup.
> Of course, this only effects Microsoft operating systems because
> everyone else is sane and supports LBA.
With emphasis on _sane_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-10 13:06 RFC: disk geometry via sysfs Seewer Philippe
2006-02-13 9:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-15 7:57 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-13 16:32 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-13 19:02 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-13 19:22 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-13 19:36 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-14 16:35 ` Seewer Philippe [this message]
2006-02-13 19:34 ` Phillip Susi
[not found] ` <43F206E7.70601@bfh.ch>
2006-02-14 18:19 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 8:39 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-15 8:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-15 9:01 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-15 14:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-15 14:11 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-15 15:15 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-15 15:29 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 8:12 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 15:36 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 15:41 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 16:15 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 15:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 16:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-15 16:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-15 18:43 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 19:23 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-15 20:54 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 21:41 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-15 22:43 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 12:33 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 15:26 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 16:15 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 17:01 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 16:39 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 17:09 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 19:01 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 19:55 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 8:18 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 18:14 ` Matt Domsch
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