From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NlPwe-0005Hp-Ia for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:55:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E8F3E0822; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F43DE0822 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 031B01B40BD for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:53:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.983 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.983 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.384, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xyr6MyvxhtYV for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C34267929 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlPv7-0005jG-6B for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:53:37 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-205-199.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.205.199]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:53:37 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-205-199.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:53:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:53:23 -0800 Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b1002261731i1f64df2di7a87e670db5bbdd8@mail.gmail.com> <595840.35352.qm@web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-205-199.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a2pre) Gecko/20100224 Shredder/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <595840.35352.qm@web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: ba483c48-0a1b-4a84-a082-22d08ab4555a X-Archives-Hash: bb8324c1b5478b93b4a9199d916faace On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Mark Knecht >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: >>> Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? >> Who cares what cylinder it's on, and >> who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't matter to us >> users... > ...Boot Loader writers (e.g. grub) need to care about it since LBA > is not quite available right away - you have to focus on other things > until you can load the rest of the boot loader. Ah, this may be a big part of what's confusing me because I've done a lot of playing around with grub. At what point *does* LBA become available, and who makes it available? Is this one of those stupid BIOS things?