Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 14:02:50 -0600 From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HD Geometry dirty trick Message-ID: <199506162002.OAA14999@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> "Re: HD Geometry dirty trick" (Jun 17, 3:34am)
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On Jun 17, 3:34am, Bruce Evans wrote: > Subject: Re: HD Geometry dirty trick > > [ ... ] > The BIOS can invent any geometry that it wants (subject to the > constraints 1 <= nsectors <= 63, 1 <= nheads <= 256, 1 <= ncyls <= 1024). Does this mean that it's possible that every distinct BIOS could produce a different geometry for a given disk drive, so that there is no way to predict via an algorithm for all machines what the BIOS geometry should be? Bummer! --alan
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