Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:15:19 +0000 |
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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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