Re: Forcing geometry (was: Re: parted source access)

[Harley D. Eades III]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 00:36 +0100, Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote:
> Hello Jeremy,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:47:26 -0500
> Jeremy Moles <Jeremy Moles <address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>  | Perhaps you can add the ability to force parted to use certain disk
>  | geometry, useful in our case (and I'm sure you'll be familiar with
>  | this :)) when recovery partitions--in particular, IBM's--need exact
>  | geometry offsets and the hd firmware reports this wrong, propagating the
>  | "wrong" geometry up into parted and thus written out to disk upon close.
> Forcing geometry would also be beneficial to GNU fdisk to implement
> this legacy fdisk functionality.  Perhaps you should talk to Harley
> (address@hidden) about this.
Could you explain this further and in allot of detail :) I am unfortantly
not understanding what "forcing a certain geom" means. :)  By what
criteria do we base this geometery on?

Cheers
Harley