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Revision 1.4 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Mon Sep 14 03:54:35 1998 UTC (25 years, 8 months ago) by rahnds
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Since on the powerpc, the system does not supply the user with bios valid cyl,head,sector information (the information comes from the sd driver) I have made some changes to fdisk to do the following. Allow the powerpc to specify values larger than the bios limits. All platforms now have code that will translate the LBA values in the mbr into CHS values according to the disk geometry. This occurs if the start and ending CHS values have been stored as 0xffffff. If writing to the disk and one of the values of a partition violates the bios limits, it writes the requested values in the LBA fields , and stores 0xffffff for the starting and ending CHS values. This should not change the default formatting of any existing system other than the CHS and LBA values should always match given the detected geometry of the disk.