From: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
Cc: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
seabios@seabios.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:50:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309115036.GA14600@morn.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1203090656250.22212@bbs.intern>
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:18:38AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> BTW: I've found out how LSI logic BIOS geometry translation works
> with (guessing) and without existing partition table. That might be
> an option
> for Seabios to implement.
> @Kevin: What do you think?
SeaBIOS has an algorithm for guessing the virtual disk geometry (see
src/block.c:get_translation). If you have an improvement to that
algorithm, please send a patch.
Note that the physical disk geometry is obtained from the drive itself
(where possible).
-Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-09 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-04 20:13 [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-07 6:41 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-07 14:51 ` Brian Jackson
2012-03-07 19:58 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-08 7:44 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-08 8:54 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-03-08 10:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 6:28 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 7:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 7:46 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 8:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-09 6:25 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 6:18 ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2012-03-09 7:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-03-09 8:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-09 11:50 ` Kevin O'Connor [this message]
2012-03-09 16:48 ` Brian Jackson
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