Re: IDE Auto-Geometry Resizing support missing in 2.6.7?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:13:59PM +0200, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> Hello Kernel Developers,
> 
> I have just updated from 2.6.6 to 2.6.7. I need to use the IDE 
> Auto-Geometry Resizing support on my system (CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE). The 
> corresponding configuration option however was removed in 2.6.7 along 
> with the define in the .config file. Thus when booting my hard disks are 
> not properly detected (only with the clipped capacity).
> 
> Was the removal of this option intentional? Was the option renamed or moved?

You need to boot with hdX=stroke now.  I had a patch first that allowed both
run- an compiletime selection but Bart wanted the option to be removed.

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