Hello, On 03/16/2010 03:37 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/03/16 15:22 (GMT+0900) Tejun Heo composed: > >> Most BIOSs these days will simply report the geometry as >> being 255/63 regardless of the geometry used during partitioning > > In my experience this "most" only applies to desktop motherboard BIOS. Most > laptop BIOS seem to prefer 240, as do many external USB HD case controllers, > and older but not that antique Compaq desktops. Hmmm... interesting, does that hold for modern laptops too? It doesn't really change the situation much tho. It's just another arbitrary geometry that BIOS reports that we can't really do much about. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
