Re: [PATCH] IDE disks show invalid geometries in /proc/ide/hd*/geometry

[Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>]

Did you read ATA-1 through ATA-7 to understand all the variations?

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mark Bellon wrote:

> The ATA specification tells large disk drives to return C/H/S data of 
> 16383/16/63 regardless of their actual size (other variations on this 
> return include 15 heads and/or 4092 cylinders). Unfortunately these CHS 
> data confuse the existing IDE code and cause it to report invalid 
> geometries in /proc when the disk runs in LBA mode.
> 
> The invalid geometries can cause failures in the partitioning tools; 
> partitioning may be impossible or illogical size limitations occur. This 
> also leads to various forms of human confusion.
> 
> I attach a patch that fixes this problem while strongly attempting to 
> not break any existing side effects and await any comments.
> 
> mark
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Bellon <mbellon@mvista.com>
> 
> 

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