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Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs? |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:53:07 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
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
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, (continued)
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, Andrew Clausen, 2002/08/28
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, H. J. Lu, 2002/08/28
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, Andrew Clausen, 2002/08/28
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, H. J. Lu, 2002/08/28
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, Andrew Clausen, 2002/08/29
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, H. J. Lu, 2002/08/29
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, Andrew Clausen, 2002/08/29
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, H. J. Lu, 2002/08/30
RE: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?, Matt_Domsch, 2002/08/28
- Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?,
Andrew Clausen <=