Subject: Re: SiI3112 Serial ATA Maxtor 6Y120M0 incorrect geometry detected
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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On Sad, 2004-09-25 at 23:15, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> - BIOS CHS is _useless_ for IDE driver
> - IDE driver returns different geometry for 2.[2,4,6].x kernels
> - Andries removed ide-geometry.c in 2.5 but didn't HDIO_GETGEO ioctl
> - BIOS CHS is available through EDD driver now
(Occasionally 8)
> - this is a parted problem
(and fixed in parted patches)

> - remove CHS info from IDE printks and /proc/ide/
> - add BLKGETSTART ioctl for getting partition's start sector
>   (this is the only legitimate use of HDIO_GETGEO currently)

If you drop the CHS/LBA/.. information from the printk's it might be
nice to replace ith with "in CHS" "in LBA28" "in LBA48" mode information
since that is the only thing it really told people.

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