Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:14:40 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries |
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:31:24PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:39:08AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > Linux does not use the BIOS, and does not use CHS either, so geometry is > > totally and completely irrelevant to Linux. > > Is that also true for 2.2?
Yes.
> I've had problems where large drives (60+G) > do these geometry tricks, and if I don't force the geometry to what I > want, fdisk (actually, sfdisk, dunno about fdisk) doesn't see the > entire drive.
Most likely you are talking about a disk soft-clipped by jumper. Some BIOSes cannot handle disks larger than 32GB, so all larger disks come with a jumper that makes the disk look like a 32GB disk. The details depend on the disk manufacturer. A lot of details can be found in http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-11.html#ss11.3
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