Re: [PATCH] 2.5.29 IDE 110

[Petr Vandrovec]

On  1 Aug 02 at 2:40, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> - Eliminate support for "sector remapping". loop devices can handle
>     stuff like that. All the custom DOS high system memmory loaded
>     BIOS workaround tricks are obsolete right now. If anywhere it should
>     be the FAT filesystem code which should be clever enough to deal with
>     it by adjusting it's read/write methods.

Hi Marcin,
  I'm using this on one system here - it has BIOS without LBA32, and
without support for >30GB disks, but I needed to put large disk with
already existing system to it, and using some disk manager was only
choice (EZDrive, using 0_to_1 remap)... I know that 0_to_1 remap
is broken for nr_sectors > 1, but it is hard to use loop device if
system does not come up without boot manager at all.
                                    Best regards,
                                        Petr Vandrovec
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