Hi,
I recently setup my ide (hd0) drive as LBA using the BIOS. After
building grub 0.5.94 and trying it out, I noticed that this (hd0)
LBA drive is being reported by grub as being CHS.
Using the grub 0.5.93.1 the same geometry command reported LBA
instead .
Here is the output of the geometry command as reported by each
version,
grub 0.5.93.1 ==> geometry (hd0)
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 783/255/63, The number of sectors =
12594960, LBA
grub 0.5.94 ==> geometry (hd0)
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 783/255/63, The number of sectors =
12578895, CHS
I have not experienced any problems with the 0.5.94 version
actually accessing this drive. Perhaps the BIOS (Award) can
handle either type of access, since the C/H/S reported by grub is
the same (well almost, I assume grub's 783 is zero based) as that
reported by the BIOS.
Actually, under 0.5.94, it seems that the 783 is ones based!
71 jeff ~ $ bc
bc 1.05
784*255*63
12594960
783*255*63
12578895
Thanks,
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Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
