[SeaBIOS] [Qemu-devel] XP install cores with SCSI LSI 53C895A disks
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Fri Mar 9 12:50:36 CET 2012
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:18:38AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> BTW: I've found out how LSI logic BIOS geometry translation works
> with (guessing) and without existing partition table. That might be
> an option
> for Seabios to implement.
> @Kevin: What do you think?
SeaBIOS has an algorithm for guessing the virtual disk geometry (see
src/block.c:get_translation). If you have an improvement to that
algorithm, please send a patch.
Note that the physical disk geometry is obtained from the drive itself
(where possible).
-Kevin
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