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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:28:54AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote: > On 2.6.0-testx kernels, I have noticed that there are problems with > GNU Parted. Parted says that the disk geometries reported by the > kernel are incorrect. Yes. Parted should be fixed not to complain. There is no such thing as a "correct" disk geometry. Roughly speaking the kernel no longer attempts to report anything, so calling HDIO_GETGEO is useless (for this purpose). Andries - 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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