Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:50:57PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > "Cylinders" isn't a value you have access to.  In fact, we can't ask
> > the BIOS anything.  All information we get is deduced.
> 
> I'm working on adding BIOS EDD 3.0 support to the kernel (do the calls in
> real mode before the switch to protected mode).  At that point we can get
> (for BIOS-known disks):

Won't conforming BIOSes all support LBA?  We only really need this
information for compatibility with legacy BIOSes.

Cheers,
Andrew