RE: The WHY's (RE: ide drive w/dma ... system crash)

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 12 May 1999 02:14:33 +0200 (MET DST)


From goemon@sasami.anime.net Tue May 11 21:51:25 1999

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
> I believe we could also generate a CHS blacklist, where the BIOS or drive
> are known to return bogus geometries.
> No - the bug is in the Linux kernel source, not in the BIOS.

Oh really? So the fact BIOS returns 16383,16,63 instead of 19650,16,63 is
not a BIOS bug?

No, it is the ATA standard.

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