Re: Parted gets wrong geometry, hangs writing filesystem

[Matt Wilson]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:09:11PM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 
> > For what it's worth. I think this is a BIOS/Linux problem.
> 
> Agreed.  There is no reliable way of communicating CHS values
> from the BIOS to Linux, unfortunately :-(

EDD 3.0 will be extending int13 ah=48h to include the PCI bus and
device type information along with drive geometry.  Draft is at:

http://www.t13.org/project/d1386r5a.pdf

Too bad this is just a draft and it will be a while before we see
firmware that does this...

Matt