From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262331AbTLCXW3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:22:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262352AbTLCXW3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:22:29 -0500 Received: from mail003.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.144]:18367 "EHLO mail003.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262331AbTLCXW2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:22:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:27:26 +1100 From: Andrew Clausen To: Szakacsits Szabolcs Cc: Apurva Mehta , Andries Brouwer , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX Message-ID: <20031203232726.GC466@gnu.org> References: <20031203115404.GE1810@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en,pt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:07:06PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > Can you elaborate? Autodetect what? Autodetect if the BIOS supports LBA? > > Autodetect to boot from the boot controller's miniport driver or using > BIOS. It should have been mentioned in one of the Microsoft articles I > referred. I'm totally confused. What's a miniport driver? What is a boot controller? Do these have anything to do with LBA? Also, you say "autodetect"... you mean it is making a decision to use some method (not that I understand this). How does it make the decision? The article doesn't mention "Linear", "LBA", "boot controller" or "miniport driver" at all. (I was looking at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=98080 - is this the right one?) The question I believe I asked was: how does the Windows installation software decide whether to use LBA or CHS? Is this an answer to this question? Cheers, Andrew