From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Subject: Re: Why is there a 1024 cylinder limit in Linux. Date: 9 Aug 1993 02:19:00 GMT
In article <1993Aug6.085159.26481@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M) writes:
| Your BIOS works with 1224 cyl drive, doesn't mean your BIOS KNOW your
| drive has 1224 cyl. There are lots of drive that can fool the stupid
| BIOS by remapping cyl > 1024 to extra heads and sectors per track. The
| trick works with BIOS, and it should work with linux also, as long as
| linux doesn't probe the drive for ACTUAL configuration.
Actually as long as your *boot* partition lies below cyl 1024 the rest
of the Linux partitions can be where the disk is. There are performance
reasons *not* to remap the disk geometry.
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