From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
Cc: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>,
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.de>,
bug-parted@gnu.org, Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:12:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040703201224.GC6456@pclin040.win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040703144500.GL630@gnu.org>
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:45:00AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> I was under the impression that 2.6 provides a mechanism for setting the
> HDIO_GETGEO thingy... so any program can tell Parted (and everything
> else, for that matter) what they want the geometry to be.
It is not a good idea to ask the user to tell the kernel so that the kernel
can tell parted. It is easier if one can tell parted directly.
> It contains this:
>
> echo "bios_cyl:C bios_head:H bios_sect:S" > /proc/ide/hda/settings
>
> Isn't the kernel the right place for this kind of communication to
> be happening, anyway?
No. This is stuff that is going away. It is a kludge that happens to work today.
Andries
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <s5gwu1mwpus.fsf@patl=users.sf.net>
2004-07-02 16:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 16:50 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:28 ` dwm
2004-07-02 21:12 ` parted maintainership Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 17:04 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Andries Brouwer
2004-07-02 18:12 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-02 18:45 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407022025200.28638@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-02 19:57 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 0:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 0:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03 0:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03 1:57 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:59 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-05 12:14 ` Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics for 2.6 (was: Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics) Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 13:10 ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 13:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 13:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 14:00 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 19:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-05 21:08 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-05 21:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-06 0:17 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06 1:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-06 18:56 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-07 1:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-07 11:14 ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-07 11:51 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-06 8:33 ` Steffen Winterfeldt
2004-07-05 18:09 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-05 18:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-03 3:00 ` [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) Andrew Clausen
2004-07-02 23:55 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2004-07-03 13:56 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 2:54 ` Andrew Clausen
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407030843400.2415@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 12:44 ` Andrew Clausen
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407031535230.6149@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-07-03 15:02 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 14:42 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 1:35 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 12:33 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-07-03 14:15 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 14:45 ` Andrew Clausen
2004-07-03 15:00 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-07-03 20:12 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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