Re: Kernel / atari-fdisk problem with IDE-HD > 8,4 GB
> (I'm author of atari-fdisk.)
>
> > On large (== every new Disk, yet) IDE-Harddisks the real disk size
> > is greater then the reported size by the HD itself in C/H/S
> > notation. The reported LBA- size is correct, but not used by the
> > Kernel so the atari-fdisk programm reports errors.
>
> Hmm... wait a moment. atari-fdisk uses the standard BLKGETSIZE ioctl
> to get the disk size from the kernel. You mean that the kernel's IDE
> driver reports that size wrong? So that would be a sole kernel
> problem, not atari-fdisk's one.
>
> Ok, back to the kernel: Most parts of the IDE driver are nowadays
> shared between all archs, so I can't really believe that IDE on Atari
> should make things different than elsewhere. Or, wait a moment: It
> could be that using the LBA size is usually enabled by a corresponding
> setting in the PC BIOS, and that the default is using the CHS size. So
> the bug would be that some flag or the like isn't set on Atari...
> Would have to look into this, but I'm no real expert for IDE :-(
I have never had any problem with atari-fdisk and 2.2 kernels on my
Q40. The ide driver uses CHS in my case.
Bye
Richard
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