Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 05:56:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 05:56:20 -0500 Received: from 217-125-101-55.uc.nombres.ttd.es ([217.125.101.55]:53447 "EHLO jep.dhis.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 05:56:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3C285B40.91A83EC7@jep.dhis.org> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:56:00 +0100 From: Josep Lladonosa i Capell Reply-To: jlladono@pie.xtec.es X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17-pre5 i686) X-Accept-Language: ca, en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.x kernels, big ide disks and old bios Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, the problem is this: bios only supports disks up to 32 Gb. hard disk is 60 Gb. kernel is 2.4.17 hard disk reports its correct size when reading parameters from the disk, not from the bios verd:/proc/ide/hdc# cat geometry physical 65530/16/63 logical 119150/16/63 when booting (dmesg): hdc: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive hdc: 66055247 sectors (33820 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=119150/16/63, UDMA(33) Linux adopts the 'false' geometry (65530/16/63) ) to bypass the bios boot. I know that there are patches for 2.2 kernels and 2.3 kernels, so as linux adopts the logical geometry (a kiddy trick with lba size). They are very simple (a line), but 2.4 ide implementation is (a little more) complicated. Any patch? Bon Nadal - Merry Christmas -- Salutacions...Josep http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/1065/ -- - 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/