Bug 23795 - 2.2 vs 2.4: drive geometry reports different logical values
Summary: 2.2 vs 2.4: drive geometry reports different logical values
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel   
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Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Reported: 2001-01-11 13:47 UTC by Brock Organ
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-01-19 15:53:41 UTC
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Description Brock Organ 2001-01-11 13:47:49 UTC 
The /proc/ide/hd*/geometry reports different logical values for the same
drive between the 2.2 and 2.4 kernel.

[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry
physical     12556/16/63
logical      787/255/63
[root@localhost /root]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 15:48:40 EDT 2000 i686
unkn\own

[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry
physical     12556/16/63
logical      12556/16/63
[root@localhost /root]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.0-0.43.12 #1 Wed Dec 27 18:40:11 EST 2000
i686 \unknown
[root@localhost /root]#
Comment 1 Brock Organ 2001-01-11 13:50:56 UTC 
a side effect of this procedure is that drives partitioned with linux in 2.2
space used the 2.2 logical numbers; but running fdisk with 2.4 will use the 2.4
logical numbers (different).  As a result, fdisk will display errors about
"partitions do not end on cylinder boundaries" ...
Comment 2 Enrico Scholz 2001-01-11 16:25:55 UTC 
Another side-effect ocurred here, ist that my lilo stops with 'L' (without any
hexnumber behind).
Comment 3 Brock Organ 2001-01-19 15:53:37 UTC 
verified this issue is fixed in the qa0118.1 test tree ... in my example above,
the 2.4 kernel used DOES report the same geometry as the 2.2 kernel did ...
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