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-rw-r--r--hw/block/hd-geometry.c10
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);