Re: wrong cylinders of kingston usb pendrive [intel 82801DB]

[Matthew Dharm]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 05:59:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:50:37AM +0100, Patrick Ringl wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am suffering from the following (usb-related?) problem:
> >
> > I have several different mashines - all x86 architecture - just lets call 
> > them mashineA, mashineB and mashineC.
> 
> Is the kernel the same on all of these machines?

I'm not sure it matters...

usb-storage has no knowledge of CHS geometery.  It deals entirely in LBA.

Does anyone know where the kernel gets the CHS geometery equivalent from?

Matt

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