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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> ... and if you want to see something that's worse than either, check out
> /proc/ide/hda/identify.

AFAIAC, the /proc/ide/ stuff should never have happened.
It's proven that every bit of it can be done in userspace.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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