Sorry, for MO230 walid geomety 221/32/63....
Regards!
AsOneOfUs
> The Question!
> Nobody does not plan create SCSI-BIOS-emulation for ppSCSI?
> With pleasure to join!..
>
> I searched for the answers to problem on linuxdoc - and ed on the
> following: - scsi has no a physical presentation C/H/S, these given are
> substituted subsequently...
> - a driver under Windows (95 and NT) themselves always set geometry
> 442/16/63 (its right for 230MB MO devices).
> - under Linux - is done by way of the sensing MBR (in which recorded trash
> ???), SCSI device have no BIOS (C/H/S) information about disk geometry.
>
> When I have corrected in module sd_mod (<kernel-source>/drivers/scsi/sd.c,
> by force having puted necessary me parameters) given about parameter of the
> disk, given this module, that all have got up on their own place... And the
> whole subsystem ppscsi-epst here works without remarks.
> There is questions: possible send these parameters to module sd (rather
> then barbarous to rule the source texts)?
>
> I have two MO devices: Fujitsu M2541BE02 (IDE interface) and Olympus (auch
> based on Fujitsu SCSI drive) with Shittle SCSI (EPST) adapter, now they
> both work equally under DOS/Windows and under Linux. Moreover, I shall not
> create partions - but as it is accepted for MO device - write all directly
> to /dev/hdc, /dev/sda
>
> I attach the ruled file sd.c - from kernel 2.4.18 - presently, regrettably,
> no time for more neat reading and detailed analysis, variable to have
> charge of geometry: H=const,S=const,C= total bloks / (H * S)
> My reading noted "//!"
>
> AsOneOfUs
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