#13918 closed bug (no change required)
Disk geometry reporting is not correct
| Reported by: | sfanxiang | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Drivers/Disk | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
ioctl(B_GET_GEOMETRY) always reports 1 for heads and cylinders.
For example, Haiku might say a disk's geometry is 1/1/30720000 while linux says 15000/64/32. The information seems to be abstracted away somewhere.
Bug discovered: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/pull/2021
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 5 years ago
comment:2 by , 4 years ago
| Resolution: | → no change required |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:3 by , 4 years ago
| Milestone: | Unscheduled |
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For most modern disks the cylinder/head/sector layout is nonsense. The disks usually have more sectors in the outer cylinders than the inner ones. Not to mention SSDs where there are no cylinders and heads at all.
So I'd say as long as we get the correct total sector count, we're fine.