RE: The WHY's (RE: ide drive w/dma ... system crash)

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 11 May 1999 10:20:20 +0200 (MET DST)


From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>

I believe we could also generate a CHS blacklist, where the BIOS or drive
are known to return bogus geometries.

No - the bug is in the Linux kernel source, not in the BIOS.
And moreover, what if you blacklist Award BIOS?
It does not help you in the least - does not solve any problem.

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