Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270765AbTHJXYX (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:24:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270767AbTHJXYX (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:24:23 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:56787 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270765AbTHJXYV (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 19:24:21 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Andre Hedrick Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill HDIO_GETGEO_BIG_RAW ioctl Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 01:24:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308110124.48723.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 624 Lines: 21 On Sunday 10 of August 2003 22:29, you wrote: > Besure to force all devices to LBA only because wrapping the cylinder > count tends to make a mess. > > Cheers, > > --a Ahhh... you mean not doing set_geometry() for LBA disks (we currently don't do it only for LBA-48 disks) because for large disks the cylinder count wraps and its not a nice thing, right? cheers, --bartlomiej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/