So it's impossible to fdisk a "fresh factory hd" on the secondary ide ??
Hmm let me see...
ide.c
* To do, in likely order of completion:
* - modify kernel to obtain BIOS geometry for drives on 2nd/3rd/4th i/f
*/
ide-probe.c
* The only "perfect" way to handle this would be to modify the setup.[cS] code
* to do BIOS calls Int13h/Fn08h and Int13h/Fn48h to get all of the drive info
* for us during initialization. I have the necessary docs -- any takers? -ml
*/
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Is there any plan to improve/cleanup the IDE-Geometry stuff in 2.3.x ??
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> If you don't have a free primary, and cannot remove one of the
> primary drives to do this, you can either shut the machine down
> and boot off a boot floppy containing fdisk, after removing a
> primary drive, and replacing it with the one you wish to
> partition, or you can use a different computer to do the
> partitioning.
>
> It is a good workaround.
Sure but we can "do it better" ;) It's funny to think about a
fdisker.mydomain.com on my network :P
Anyway I need to know if my upatch will break something.
I don't think because it's essentially _cosmetics_, but with "hdX=nocmosgeom"
(*)
we use the same way to retrieve hda and hdc geometry :).
The problem I see is only in "installation like" situations
when hda is a "fresh hd" that we want to fdisk, simply don't use
hdX=nocmosgeom (*).
thanks, luca
(*) where hdX=hda or hdb
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