On 24 Sep 2009 at 17:42, Bart Oldeman wrote: > > you mean completely bogus? > > Well it may not be completely bogus as you explained -- however things > have changed in the Linux kernel too. particularly from 2.4 to 2.6. > oh... > I have a 4G USB key that I used to test "wholedisk" with a > preformatted geometry (as I could see in the DOS boot sector) of > CHS=978/128/63; however HDIO_GETGEO reported CHS=1017/125/62. This > value was invented by setsize() in the Linux kernel's > drivers/scsi/scsicam.c. > I see... Thanks for the update :-) It's indeed been many months since the last time I bothered to investigate :-) Now I fully approve of your approach. Good luck and thanks for the great job that you're doing. Frank Rysanek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html