Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sun Nov 19 2000 - 19:01:05 EST


On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote:

> Well, I could patch it so it adds that one sector ;-) But that's not the
> right way. The true number of sectors is 90069840, since 90069839 doesn't
> divide by the number of *real* heads (6) and the number of recording zones
> (15). So it needs fixing.

15 == 16 if 0 == 1 in realm of counting numbers.

Also geometry is a lie to begin with, so what is one more lie on top of
another?

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development

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