Re: [ros-dev] New harddisk geometry

[Love Nystrom]

Hi People,

I'm back after my ordeal in Europe and finally got an inet line..
But now I've over 300 mails from the list to wade through.. Ugh.
It's gonna take some time to get up to speed.

Hi Eric,

That's all fine, it's just an educated choice of disk parameters as I see
it.

But anyway, all disk handling software (drivers etc) should honor whatever
disk parameters you write in the boot record when you format the partition,
and whatever geometry you write in the MBR when the disk gets partitioned,
whether it's this or that.

Just in case someone forgot ;)

Best Regards
  Love

>   From: Eric Kohl <eric.kohl(a)t-online.de>
>  To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
>  Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:17:40 +0100
>  Subject: [ros-dev] Announcement: New harddisk geometry next weekend
>  Hi!
>
>  I plan to change the standard harddisk geometry from the old 32 sectors 
and 64
heads geometry to the > new 63 sectors and 255 heads geometry next
weekend. The old disk geometry was used up to
>   Windows NT4 and the new geometry is used since Windows
> 2000. So I guess 
it is time for ReactOS to > make this change too. ;-)
>  
>  This should improve the compatiibility with other OSs because every 
modern OS uses
the new disk
>   geometry.
>
>  Please note that you must delete and re-create all partitions on your 
virtual
harddisk in order to get
>   a clean partition table when the new disk geomerty is
> in use.
>
>  Regards,
>  Eric