Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:32:34 +0000 |
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On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 11:20 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > Why do you say the partitioning tool needs to know the disk reported > C/H/S? The value stored in the MBR must match the bios reported values, > not the disk reported ones, so why does the partitioner care about what > the disk reports?
You answered that in asking the question. "The value stored in the MBR must match the ...". What if the MBR has not yet been written ?
(Also btw its *should*...) most modern OS's will take a sane MBR geometry and trust it over BIOS defaults.
Alan
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