>Think of "PnP geometry" supported by all nowadays drives. > >It's 255 heads, 63 sectors per track, and whatever number of cylinders.
You do not really need the 255-63-X PNP mode. Given a hard disk small enough, VMware may make it a 16-63-X, 16-64-X, or something like that. Still works as intended. You see, the kernel mostly gives a damn about CHS, since the moment the partition table is scanned, it is translated into LBA offsets ( part of that should be seen in /proc/partitions). -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/