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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:42:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: raptor <raptor@antifork.org>
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Subject: Re: possible bug in hd geometry detect code?
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, raptor wrote:

> hda: FUJITSU MPF3102AH, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: FUJITSU MPF3102AH, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: FUJITSU MPF3102AH, 9773MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63, UDMA
> hdc: FUJITSU MPF3102AH, 9773MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19857/16/63, UDMA

No your BIOS is stupid and does not assume you will have a disk on the
second channel.  Thus, one does LBA translation and the other does CHS.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development

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