Re: [PATCH] Trivial, IDE geometry fix / defconfig changes

[Guest section DW]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:56:17PM +0100, Robert Cardell wrote:

> --- ide-disk.c.old	Tue Jun  4 21:09:10 2002
> +++ ide-disk.c	Tue Jun  4 21:09:44 2002
> @@ -929,9 +929,9 @@
>  
>  	if (id->cfs_enable_2 & 0x0400) {
>  		capacity_2 = id->lba_capacity_2;
> -		drive->cyl = (unsigned int) capacity_2 / (drive->head * drive->sect);
>  		drive->head		= drive->bios_head = 255;
>  		drive->sect		= drive->bios_sect = 63;
> +		drive->cyl = (unsigned int) capacity_2 / (drive->head * drive->sect);
>  		drive->select.b.lba	= 1;
>  		set_max_ext = idedisk_read_native_max_address_ext(drive);
>  		if (set_max_ext > capacity_2) {
> 

Yes, let me confirm: this patch is required.
I sent it to the list on 10 Feb 2002 ("[PATCH] tiny IDE fixes"); apparently
nobody picked it up, or at least it didnt reach 2.4.19-pre9 yet.
That patch also removed some dead code.

Andries