Messages in this thread | | | From | "Daniel J Blueman" <> | Subject | Re: Cylinder limits jumper for drives over 32GB | Date | Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:44:37 +0100 |
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Hi Andre,
> You have to have something returned from the kernel to even attempt a WAG > on geometry........Since we do this in the kernel, why should the resolts > not be exported to USER-SPACE? This way ALL user-space utilities are > using what the kernel declares...........
Is WAG some sort of translation? I agree with exporting the information that the kernel works out to user-space. That is truly good.
What I'm saying is, is it not possible to only export LBA information? I hate to see disk geometry everywhere (fdisk, hdparm, /proc/ide...) when the CHS idea is now just an abstract way of looking at the disk - and doesn't get close to how things are layed out on big disks anyway.
The sooner CHS information is not exported, the better, IMHO
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