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From: Thomas G. <tg...@gm...> - 2004-03-23 11:15:12
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Hi Anton & Szaka, > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:02:10 +0100 (MET) > From: Szakacsits Szabolcs <sz...@si...> > To: Anton Altaparmakov <ai...@ca...> > Cc: ntfs-dev <lin...@li...> > Subject: Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] hidden secctors and NTFS > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > Ok. I will do that. Hopefully tomorrow. The question is now > > whether we want to use the Linux kernel's idea of the geometry or > > the BIOS often differ). I will go with using the kernel's idea > > for now. > > I'm afraid sometimes this is ok, other times the other one ... Well, > what does Windows use? Probably the BIOS idea, so maybe that one > would be better? As i mentioned in the "ntfs open discussion", on my system Win2k does use a different geometry than linux does, yielding linux fdisk warnings when a partition is "formatted" on Win2k. I did not try to boot Win2k on a linux conforming partition, however. The question of the "correct" geometry should also consider the > 1024 cyl case (lba?), when the geometry mainly consists of 0xff. -- - Thomas |
