Bug 25549

Summary: The installer truncates # of cylinders
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Red Hat Bugzilla <bugzilla>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.1   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: Florence RC-1
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Description Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-02-01 22:15:37 UTC
The installer truncates the number of cylinders if a hd
has more than 65535 cylinders. I will provide a patch.

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-02-01 22:17:19 UTC
Created attachment 8679 [details]
A patch

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-02-02 19:14:29 UTC
Thank you for the patch!

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-02-05 20:58:47 UTC
Applied to internal tree.

Also patched isys.c where HDIO_GETGEO ioctl() was being used as well.