Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:08:09 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: Bigggg Maxtor drives (fwd) |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Chris Ball wrote: >> (would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?) > >No, the kernel tends not to rely on the BIOS for geometry. Which is >usually very wise.
Except for rare cases involving LILO. It needs to know what the BIOS thinks the geometry is. In the case of my laptop (Compaq LTE 5400 -- I know, buy something less that a decade old), I have to guess since linux doesn't keep anything the BIOS provides.
--Ricky
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