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Diffstat (limited to 'hw/block/hd-geometry.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | hw/block/hd-geometry.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hw/block/hd-geometry.c b/hw/block/hd-geometry.c index 6fcf74df44..b187878fac 100644 --- a/hw/block/hd-geometry.c +++ b/hw/block/hd-geometry.c @@ -121,8 +121,16 @@ void hd_geometry_guess(BlockBackend *blk, int *ptrans) { int cylinders, heads, secs, translation; + HDGeometry geo; - if (guess_disk_lchs(blk, &cylinders, &heads, &secs) < 0) { + /* Try to probe the backing device geometry, otherwise fallback + to the old logic. (as of 12/2014 probing only succeeds on DASDs) */ + if (blk_probe_geometry(blk, &geo) == 0) { + *pcyls = geo.cylinders; + *psecs = geo.sectors; + *pheads = geo.heads; + translation = BIOS_ATA_TRANSLATION_NONE; + } else if (guess_disk_lchs(blk, &cylinders, &heads, &secs) < 0) { /* no LCHS guess: use a standard physical disk geometry */ guess_chs_for_size(blk, pcyls, pheads, psecs); translation = hd_bios_chs_auto_trans(*pcyls, *pheads, *psecs); |