Re: [Fwd: Hard disk geometry]

Bernard Wei (bwei@home.com)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:31:30 -0700

Simon Kirby wrote:
>
> Hrm...If this is reliable and hasn't already been implemented, I guess it
> would be worth implementing it. I don't think you'll be able to call int
> 0x13 from userspace very easily, either, so fixing the kernel is probably
> best and easiest. Perhaps Andre Hedrick <andre@suse.com> can help here?
> (He would know much more than me about this stuff. :))
>

I'm not sure how much we can depend on BIOS calls, broken
BIOS isn't uncommon.

- Bernard Wei -o)
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