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    SubjectRe: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs
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    On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 15:11 +0100, Seewer Philippe wrote:
    > > In the IDE case the drive geometry has meaning in certain cases,
    > > specifically the C/H/S drive addressing case with old old drives.
    > >
    > >
    > Yes. But the addressing is abstracted by the kernel and we where talking
    > about dropping the getgeo ioctrl. Not geometry itself.

    The tools need to know the C/H/S drive addressing data for old drives
    because it is used to determine partition tables. That doesn't have to
    be GETGEO but it does need to exist somewhere.

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