Bug 25549 – The installer truncates # of cylinders

Bug 25549 - The installer truncates # of cylinders

Summary:	The installer truncates # of cylinders

Reported:	2001-02-01 17:15 EST by Red Hat Bugzilla
Modified:	2008-03-13 15:18 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-02-05 15:58:51 EST
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Description Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-02-01 17:15:37 EST

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 17:17:19 EST

Created attachment 8679 [details]
A patch

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-02-02 14:14:29 EST

Thank you for the patch!

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2001-02-05 15:58:47 EST

Applied to internal tree.

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

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