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

On 8/4/05, Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> All of these numbers are virtual, since CHS is not really used anymore, as
> we know. But, which of these fake CHS values (16383/16/63 | 65535/16/63 |
> 1023/255/63) is the right one? 255/63/4982 is another matter, since it
> [almost] matches the actual size of the disk while the other three are just
> "for the bios".

What do you mean by right?  Not one of those above values has any
physical meaning....

--eric
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