Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:54:55 +0100 (MET) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: The Linux 64 GiB Limit - was: Re: oops! Should be fdisk broken? |
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From: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:28:19PM +0100, Guest section DW wrote: > From: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> > > About this geometry mess: > Is there a reason why not to use sector addressing and avoid ALL troubles ? > Except "backweird compatroubleity" off-course. > > It will be required at least as long as there still exist people > using DOS or Windows * with the old partition types (1,4,5,6) > who want to have Linux on the same system.
Ok. So let's use sector addressing by default and have a DOS-compatibility mode which should be run-time compatible. If the kernel detects the presence
Oh, please - stop this.
The geometry problem is the problem: what values for C/H/S should the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl return?
It is completely unrelated to sector addressing. But we need the values for C/H/S that BIOS or DOS will use on the disk.
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