Re: IDE Disk Geometry detection/default
mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 19:05:21 -0500
Daniel Ryde wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, mlord wrote:
>
> > > Well, no. If I partitionate a new drive on the secondary interface and
> > > move it to the primary, it will change it's geometry. Not good.
> >
> > Not true. Look further on, at the partition check.
> > Thats where the translated geometry is reported.
>
> Obviously you have not tested.
Duh.. works fine for me.
Perhaps you are not using a modern kernel.. ?
I don't recall exactly, but this may be a 2.1.xx feature.
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