Am 29.06.2012 17:34, schrieb Markus Armbruster: > New limits straight from ATA4 6.2 Register delivered data transfer > command sector addressing. > > I figure the old sector limit 63 was blindly copied from the BIOS > int 13 limit. Doesn't apply to the hardware. No idea where the old > cylinder limit comes from. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Now I think we have the very same thing in IDE, SCSI and virtio-blk. Would it make sense to have a helper function in hd-geometry.c that takes and validates the geometry from a BlockConf, applies defaults and puts the result into device state fields passed by reference? Kevin
