Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?

[H. J. Lu]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:41:20PM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:11:13PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > See
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72686
> > 
> > My question why parted even bothers with number of cylinders > 1024
> > for legacy stuff. Linux's fdisk doesn't. Here is a patch.
> 
> cylinders > 1024 is a bad heuristic.  (What does hard disk size have
> to do with the BIOS version?)
> 

My questions are what "legacy" is and if it supports cylinders > 1024.
As far as I know, the "legacy" BIOS doesn't support cylinders > 1024.
You can't use the "legacy" BIOS with cylinders > 1024.


H.J.