From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262730AbTLCX6x (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:58:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262761AbTLCX6x (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:58:53 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:50699 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262730AbTLCX6s (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:58:48 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX Date: 3 Dec 2003 23:47:38 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031203115404.GE1810@gnu.org> <20031203232726.GC466@gnu.org> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1070495258 21282 192.168.12.62 (3 Dec 2003 23:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20031203232726.GC466@gnu.org>, Andrew Clausen wrote: | On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:07:06PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: | > > Can you elaborate? Autodetect what? Autodetect if the BIOS supports LBA? | > | > Autodetect to boot from the boot controller's miniport driver or using | > BIOS. It should have been mentioned in one of the Microsoft articles I | > referred. | | I'm totally confused. | | What's a miniport driver? What is a boot controller? Do these have | anything to do with LBA? | | Also, you say "autodetect"... you mean it is making a decision to use | some method (not that I understand this). How does it make the decision? | | The article doesn't mention "Linear", "LBA", "boot controller" or | "miniport driver" at all. (I was looking at | http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=98080 - is this the right one?) | | | The question I believe I asked was: how does the Windows installation | software decide whether to use LBA or CHS? Is this an answer to | this question? Some (most?) BIOS implementations let you set this as an option, something like STANDARD, LARGE and LBA choices. Most today set LBA unless you force it. I would expect the Windows installer to use what the BIOS provides, but I'm happy to say I haven't done a winstall in several years. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.