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Subject: Re: cciss update for 2.6
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In-Reply-To: <20040325224641.GE4456@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>; from mike.miller@hp.com on Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:46:41PM -0600
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 04:46:41PM -0600, mike.miller@hp.com wrote:
> Please consider this patch for inclusion in the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> If no device is attached we now return -ENXIO instead of some bogus numbers.
> Prevents applications from trying to access non-existent disks.
> Also adds HDIO_GETGEO_BIG IOCTL that fdisk uses.

HDIO_GETGEO_BIG was only used by some horribly patched vendor fdisks.
It's not declared in the kernel, and thus no driver should implement it.