Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:24:52 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:28:54AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote:
> On 2.6.0-testx kernels, I have noticed that there are problems with > GNU Parted. Parted says that the disk geometries reported by the > kernel are incorrect.
Yes. Parted should be fixed not to complain. There is no such thing as a "correct" disk geometry. Roughly speaking the kernel no longer attempts to report anything, so calling HDIO_GETGEO is useless (for this purpose).
Andries
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