reopen 471504 -- On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:19:10PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > LaMont Jones wrote: > I see that in hdreg.h the unsigned char has an effect, but it is not clear > how that effects me... > > Could explain a bit more?
That's cfdisk passing the geometry to the kernel. If it's working with > 256 heads, then the kernel isn't caring about that... anything that reads the geometry from the kernel will get the wrong answer. I suppose it's possible that fdisk could clamp heads at 255 in passing the geometry down, but the real solution is to allow more heads in the geometry ioctl. I'll kick it around upstream some. lamont -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
