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Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?
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On Wednesday 16 April 2008 09:33:19 am Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings.
> >
> > Which begs the question -- why are we still spitting that warning out
> > during the fdisk portion of sysinstall?
>
> I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems care
> about geometry and those that don't.

MBR's still have C/H/S in their tables.  However, we actually use EDD by 
default now in 7 and so the C/H/S is pretty much never used.  The GPT boot 
stuff only uses LBAs and EDD.

-- 
John Baldwin