On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:47:34PM -0600, Mike Latinovich wrote:
> Certainly you should be able to;  I've got a 27G Maxtor udma66 drive on
> my system.
> 
> While the dmesg output doesn't seem to be correct (insofar as the chs info),
> the sector count seems to be fine.

This is correct. It's a hack to work around a limitation of the C/H/S
interface, which only allows 16383/16/63. The effect is that the c/h/s and
sectors number don't match but it doesn't matter as long as you use LBA
(with C/H/S you can only address the first 8G anyway).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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