Jochen,
I don't really care about Disk Overlays.
However if you can fix it or if Andries can great.
Sorry,
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The EZ-Drive remapping code remaps to many sectors, if they are read
> together with sector 0 in one bunch. This is even documented:
>
> >From linux-2.4.0/drivers/ide/ide.c line 1165:
> /* Yecch - this will shift the entire interval,
> possibly killing some innocent following sector */
>
> This problem hit a GRUB user using linux-2.4.2 but it exists for a
> long time; the remapping code is already in 2.0.xx. The reason that
> nobody cares is probably because there are only a few programs that
> access /dev/hda directly.
>
> GRUB is a boot loader that normally runs under plain BIOS but there is
> also a wrapper to run it under linux and other unixes. Because it
> shares most code with its BIOS derivate it accesses the disk the hard
> way, reading directly from /dev/hda and interpreting the file system
> with its own (read-only) file system drivers.
>
> This is what happened: Grub reads the first track in one bunch and
> since a track has an odd number of sectors, linux adds the first
> sector of the next track to this bunch. This sector contains the boot
> sector of the first FAT partition. The result of the remapping is
> that grub can't access that partition.
>
> Please CC me on reply.
>
> Jochen
>
Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development
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