Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263462AbTKKLtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:49:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263464AbTKKLtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:49:02 -0500 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.7]:43532 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263462AbTKKLtA (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 06:49:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:46:49 +0100 From: Andries Brouwer To: Flavio Bruno Leitner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE disk information changed from 2.4 to 2.6 Message-ID: <20031111114649.GA16163@win.tue.nl> References: <20031105172310.GE5304@conectiva.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031105172310.GE5304@conectiva.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 896 Lines: 23 On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:23:10PM -0200, Flavio Bruno Leitner wrote: > Upgrading from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 the CHS information for the same hardware > changed. This behaviour is correct? > > Using 2.4: > hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA (33) > > Using 2.6: > hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA (33) Yes, correct in the sense that it is not wrong. Probably your disk reports 15 and 2.4 invented 255. CHS is something that stopped being meaningful a decade ago. Today it is random garbage, to be ignored whenever possible. Don't worry about CHS when you don't have problems. - 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/