On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 10:01 +0100, Seewer Philippe wrote: > This would mean dropping the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl completely and force > applications such as fdisk/sfdisk and even dosemu to determine disk > geometry for themselves. Which I think actually would be the most > correct approach. In the IDE case the drive geometry has meaning in certain cases, specifically the C/H/S drive addressing case with old old drives. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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