Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932066AbWBRQVU (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:21:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751443AbWBRQVU (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:21:20 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-01-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.5.131]:62629 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.tampabay.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751416AbWBRQVU (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:21:20 -0500 Message-ID: <43F74969.2010500@cfl.rr.com> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:20:57 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcin Dalecki CC: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Linux kernel Subject: Re: C/H/S from user space References: <43F617FA.2030609@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43F63A59.6090401@cfl.rr.com> <43F64C2F.7040200@cfl <66D6145F-E9F9-4B4F-B06F-3C40018E8F86@neostrada.pl> In-Reply-To: <66D6145F-E9F9-4B4F-B06F-3C40018E8F86@neostrada.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1228 Lines: 26 Marcin Dalecki wrote: > It has been already tried years ago to eliminate this ridicle. The > answer to your > question is put bluntly: It's like that, because some kernel "prima > ballerinas", > whose names "relate to alternating current", will get at you with mock > up somke > and mirror woodo examples where it's supposed to be sooo required. I myself have been trying to show why it is required. Unless I am wrong about the msdos MBR code passing the CHS partition start values directly to int 13 rather than computing them based on the LBA in the MBR and the currently reported geometry from the bios, then fdisk does require the correct bios geometry to maintain compatibility with msdos/windows. My original point was that if it is required ( and since it is still in the kernel, that seems to be the case ) then at least make sure it is _correct_. Whether it is needed but wrong, or if it is simply not needed, then it is silly to keep geometry in the kernel. - 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/