From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Organization: CC CTU Prague
To: Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@evision.ag>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:54:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.29 IDE 110
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On  1 Aug 02 at 2:40, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> - Eliminate support for "sector remapping". loop devices can handle
>     stuff like that. All the custom DOS high system memmory loaded
>     BIOS workaround tricks are obsolete right now. If anywhere it should
>     be the FAT filesystem code which should be clever enough to deal with
>     it by adjusting it's read/write methods.

Hi Marcin,
  I'm using this on one system here - it has BIOS without LBA32, and
without support for >30GB disks, but I needed to put large disk with
already existing system to it, and using some disk manager was only
choice (EZDrive, using 0_to_1 remap)... I know that 0_to_1 remap
is broken for nr_sectors > 1, but it is hard to use loop device if
system does not come up without boot manager at all.
                                    Best regards,
                                        Petr Vandrovec
                                        vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                        
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