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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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 > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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?
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