Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 02:14:33 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | RE: The WHY's (RE: ide drive w/dma ... system crash) |
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From goemon@sasami.anime.net Tue May 11 21:51:25 1999
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Guest section DW wrote: > From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> > I believe we could also generate a CHS blacklist, where the BIOS or drive > are known to return bogus geometries. > No - the bug is in the Linux kernel source, not in the BIOS.
Oh really? So the fact BIOS returns 16383,16,63 instead of 19650,16,63 is not a BIOS bug?
No, it is the ATA standard.
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