From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:15:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140016519.14831.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F3367F.8020807@bfh.ch>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-15 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-10 13:06 Seewer Philippe
2006-02-13 9:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-15 7:57 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-13 16:32 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-13 19:02 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-13 19:22 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-13 19:36 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-14 16:35 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-13 19:34 ` Phillip Susi
[not found] ` <43F206E7.70601@bfh.ch>
2006-02-14 18:19 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 8:39 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-15 8:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-02-15 9:01 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-15 14:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-15 14:11 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-15 15:15 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-02-15 15:29 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 8:12 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 15:36 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 15:41 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 16:15 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 15:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 16:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-15 16:20 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-15 18:43 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 19:23 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-15 20:54 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15 21:41 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-15 22:43 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 12:33 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 15:26 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 16:15 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 17:01 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 16:39 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 17:09 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 19:01 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-16 19:55 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-16 8:18 ` Seewer Philippe
2006-02-16 18:14 ` Matt Domsch
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