On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank van der Linden wrote:
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> 
> Most modern BIOSs work around this by enabling a fake geometry, in
> which the number of cylinders is trimmed down to a value <= 1024,
> and the number of heads multiplied by the same factor, giving
> the same total size.

Is there any way of changing what that factor is? I was aware that the 
translation worked that way, but even my translated geometry has more 
than 1024 cylinders, so I can't spread my root partition as large as I'd 
like.

Somebody mentioned to me once that the drive itself participates in the 
translation used in LBA, so I expect that can't be adjusted by anybody 
but the drive manufacturer. But what about the other translation scheme? 
I think it's usually called "Large" addressing mode in BIOS setups or 
something like that, isn't it?

	- Joel Reicher