Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932515AbWBPISk (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:18:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932516AbWBPISk (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:18:40 -0500 Received: from mr1.bfh.ch ([147.87.250.50]:37254 "EHLO mr1.bfh.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932515AbWBPISj (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:18:39 -0500 X-PMWin-Version: 2.5.0e, Antispam-Engine: 2.2.0.0, Antivirus-Engine: 2.32.10 Thread-Index: AcYy0YpBbdPsEanWRny2gK+D+9N3oA== Message-ID: <43F43548.4090700@bfh.ch> Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.1830 Importance: normal Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:18:16 +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: "Alan Cox" Cc: "Phillip Susi" , "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" , Subject: Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs References: <43EC8FBA.1080307@bfh.ch> <43F0B484.3060603@cfl.rr.com> <43F0D7AD.8050909@bfh.ch> <43F0DF32.8060709@cfl.rr.com> <43F206E7.70601@bfh.ch> <43F21F21.1010509@cfl.rr.com> <43F2E8BA.90001@bfh.ch> <58cb370e0602150051w2f276banb7662394bef2c369@mail.gmail.com> <1140019615.14831.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43F354E9.2020900@cfl.rr.com> <1140024754.14831.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1140024754.14831.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2006 08:18:17.0170 (UTC) FILETIME=[8A03DB20:01C632D1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 26 Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 11:20 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > >>Why do you say the partitioning tool needs to know the disk reported >>C/H/S? The value stored in the MBR must match the bios reported values, >>not the disk reported ones, so why does the partitioner care about what >>the disk reports? > > > You answered that in asking the question. "The value stored in the MBR > must match the ...". What if the MBR has not yet been written ? > > (Also btw its *should*...) most modern OS's will take a sane MBR > geometry and trust it over BIOS defaults. not always. to dos based winnt.exe installer for windows xp trusts the bios, not the mbr > > Alan > - 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/