>>>>> "Tejun" == Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Tejun> * Anything remotely modern (>= XP) doesn't give a hoot about Tejun> cylinder alignment. Tejun> * Anything older (<= 2000) is very likely to get confused with Tejun> custom geometry starting from the BIOS itself. For those Tejun> cases, the only thing we can do is aligning partitions to Tejun> cylinders abiding BIOS supplied geometry parameters which will Tejun> usually be 255/63. Tejun> So, using custom geometry doesn't help compatibility at all. Great reads on this topic. Might be worth linking to: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types.html http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/largedisk.html -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
