Re: RFC: Adding no-BIOS support to Linux?

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Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 11:41:10 EST

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On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Hard disk geometry reading might fail, I am guessing.

No disk manufactured less than ten years ago does have
a geometry. There is no need at all to read any geometry.

Andries

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