In article <199809211719.NAA03252@lunacity.ne.mediaone.net> root@ihack.net (Charles M. Hannum) writes:
>
>> But I still believe that the reported geometry via the ioctl that
>> gets the geometry should be what the disk reports, not what the BIOS
>> reports.
>
>BTW, even the `geometry' that the drive reports often doesn't cover
>the whole disk.  It seems to me that an arguments about this are
>really non-sequiturs, since using a different geometry than the BIOS
>doesn't actually solve any problems.

We should use the geometry the bios reports, otherwise we are going
to be using the space where the bios stores the machine state in some
portables...

christos