Re: [SeaBIOS] Booting from USB thumbdrives, older drives boot, newer drives don't.

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 12:05:14PM -0700, Dave Frodin wrote:
> Kevin/Paolo,
> Our concern was that actual rotating media (e.g. USB-to-SATA adapter) may have
> problems without the cdb_mode_sense_geom(). I hope to have my hands on one 
> tomorrow to do some testing.

My understanding is that the call was added for QEmu users:

http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2011-November/002566.html

-Kevin