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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/ | ||||||||||||
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