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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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