Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 May 2002 10:21:35 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 57 |
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vaio:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=FUJITSU MHJ2181AT, FwRev=D034, SerialNo=01001697 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=35433216 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 Drive Supports : ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 Kernel Drive Geometry LogicalCHS=2205/255/63 PhysicalCHS=37495/15/63
BS Dave it does parse the difference nicely
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:57:46PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > How do I get this information with hdparm please? > > > > [aia21@drop ide]$ cat via > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz moved all this stuff to userspace > a long time ago in 'ideinfo'. > > > [aia21@drop hda]$ cat cache > > 1916 > > [aia21@drop hda]$ cat capacity > > 80418240 > > [aia21@drop hda]$ cat geometry > > physical 79780/16/63 > > logical 5005/255/63 > > > > And hdparm never gives you the physical geometry AFAICS. > > Why would a normal user ever need to know this info? > > > And as I said, I can understand removing the ability to write values into > > /proc/ide/*, what I disagree with is the removal of the information > > provided by read-only access to /proc/ide/*. And that is because I am not > > aware of any other way to get the same information. > > The parsing gunk we have for /proc/ide is fugly, and should have been > done with sysctls from day one imo. > > -- > | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk > | SuSE Labs > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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