Re: 2.6 kernels misdetect harddisk geometry, 2.4 kernels are fine

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 11:53:11 EST


Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> In fact, this did not work correctly even in 2.4, except in some very
> limited circumstances: either hda only, or hda+hdb. Even hda+hdc
> configuration was broken (hda was getting parameters from BIOS, but
> hdc was not).

What do MS-DOS and Windows do in the hda+hdc case?

-- Jamie
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