On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> You misunderstood something. LBA does not use CHS information but
> uses linear addresses. So GRUB does not depend on what number of
> cylinders is reported. In LBA mode, CHS information is used just for
> compatibility with some OSes, such as DOS.
Ah. I'm starting to get all this now. I thought it was a real bug or
something.
> Look at the output from the command "geometry". In CHS mode, the
> limitation can be calculated easily by this:
>
> (the number of cylinders) * (the number of heads) * (the number of
> sectors) * 512 bytes
It looks like it can access all of the drive. I assume that this applies
to reading and writing calls as well?
