Subject: Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch>
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       Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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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