Re: does disk geometry depend on partition table?

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:03 +0800, Zhixu Liu wrote:
> Hi, Hollis,
> 
> We've tried something like this, and found it works for some platform,
> but still failed for one platform.
> Indeed, in this weird platform, we get both wrong CHS value with and
> without partition table. But the OS always 
> get the correct value. The problem is due to either BIOS or Disk for
> this particular platform, we think. But we're not clear.

That platform must have a BIOS bug and we have no known workaround. :/

> Anyway, the patch works for some cases, and should for most cases.

OK. I will commit this soon unless I hear an objection.

-Hollis