Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:27:41 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 and IDE "geometry" |
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > Or does it suffice to take */255/63 always? > > I would say most cases use the 255/63
Good. So you can try constant geometry setting with *fdisk.
> with drives >4gb. Is there anyway to query the bios to ask it?
Yes, and that is what the kernel used to do. In general, however, the answer is unreliable.
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