Re: fc2 issues -- Linux 2.6 issues (not Fedora-specific)

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Bryan,

Couple of nits...

> Where most people are running into trouble is when their BIOS is
> using a non-standard translation.  Then NT/Win just goes off and does
> its own 'thang, totally creating a "DOS disk label" (Microsoft calls
> this a "MBR disk label" or a "Basic Disk") with a 255/63 geometry,
> or similar.
> 
> - Poor BIOSes with Non-standard Translation
> 
> E.g., IBM ThinkPads use a 240/63 heads/sector translation.

Not all Thinkpads use a 240/63 heads/sector translation. fdisk reports
c/h/s geometries of 93015/16/63 and 9729/255/63 for my 48G and 80G IBM
notebook drives, respecively. Neither of these drives has ever been
touched by That Other OS(tm), except in VMware virtual machines.

> LDM is going to be with us for a
> _long_time_ as Microsoft recommends it.

With Longhorn and its reported radically new filesystem just two years
away (well, some small number anyway), I think your prediction about
Microsoft's LDM may be wishful thinking. The way I hear it (rumors at
best), NTFS may not be supported in Longhorn. I'm sure they'll offer
conversion utilities (a la FAT > NTFS), but that's about it. This could
be a major concern to those who need to retrieve data from archival tape
backups of NTFS 4/5 filesystems.

BTW, you must have had a momentary case of happy fingers when you typed
"fruitition". That one stumps me. Did you really mean to say
"frustration"? (I'm sitting here chuckling as the irony sets in.)

-- Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
                         -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov


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