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Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error.
From: |
Lennart Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error. |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:22:53 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:04:42AM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
> I didn't look at the code, but this is probably the ATA geometry of
> the disk, which is returned by the INT-13h (Extended) function 48h
> (Read Drive Parameters). If I remember correctly, this geometry is
> always 16383/16/63 for disks larger than 8.4GB.
That does match what is returned.
Grub later assumes H=255 if it falls back to CHS as far as I can tell.
H=255 S=63 would be really bad for alignment on SSDs and such (not that
H=16 is a whole lot better, but it is better).
--
Len Sorensen
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., (continued)
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Grégoire Sutre, 2011/03/18
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error.,
Lennart Sorensen <=
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Grégoire Sutre, 2011/03/18
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/18
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2011/03/16