Re: [PATCH] clipped disk reports clipped lba size

[Alan Cox]

> Here is a patch to solve that.  I am sure there is a more elegant solution, I guess we could add a "lba_size=" or something like that as a boot parameter.
> The patch against 2.4.17 does this:  if the geometry has been forced then use it to calculate the lba size and ignore the (possibly clipped) answer from the disk.

If you get the 2.4.18pre-ac patches that have the new IDE code in them this
should already be covered, along with such nice details as 160Gb disks.

Alan