Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422634AbWBNQgF (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:36:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422636AbWBNQgF (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:36:05 -0500 Received: from mr1.bfh.ch ([147.87.250.50]:23008 "EHLO mr1.bfh.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422634AbWBNQgE (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:36:04 -0500 thread-index: AcYxhLpvuPDoZVDaSD2R04/Ey2bBkw== X-PMWin-Version: 2.5.0e, Antispam-Engine: 2.2.0.0, Antivirus-Engine: 2.32.10 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.1830 Message-ID: <43F206EC.2050906@bfh.ch> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:35:56 +0100 From: "Seewer Philippe" Organization: BFH User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050811) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Phillip Susi" Cc: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" , Subject: Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs References: <43EC8FBA.1080307@bfh.ch> <43F0B484.3060603@cfl.rr.com> <43F0D7AD.8050909@bfh.ch> <43F0DFCC.5020404@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <43F0DFCC.5020404@cfl.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Feb 2006 16:35:55.0692 (UTC) FILETIME=[BA413EC0:01C63184] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 31 Phillip Susi wrote: > linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > >> You can make your own: >> >> Pretend a sector is 512 bytes. >> Use the maximum number of cylinders of either 65535 or 1024 >> Use the maximum number of sectors up to 255 >> Use the maxumum number of heads up to 255 >> >> >> Try the above with 1024 cylinders first. If it doesn't fit, use >> 65535. That's all the BIOS does. It's just used to fit the >> stuff into registers for 16-bit BIOS calls (see int 0x13). >> >> > > > Actually, different bioses do it in different ways, that is just one way > ( and possibly the most popular ). The same bios can even do it > differently depending on what options are selected in the bios setup. > Of course, this only effects Microsoft operating systems because > everyone else is sane and supports LBA. With emphasis on _sane_ - 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/