Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:12:24 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics (was: Re: workaround for BIOS / CHS stuff) |
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On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:45:00AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> I was under the impression that 2.6 provides a mechanism for setting the > HDIO_GETGEO thingy... so any program can tell Parted (and everything > else, for that matter) what they want the geometry to be.
It is not a good idea to ask the user to tell the kernel so that the kernel can tell parted. It is easier if one can tell parted directly.
> It contains this: > > echo "bios_cyl:C bios_head:H bios_sect:S" > /proc/ide/hda/settings > > Isn't the kernel the right place for this kind of communication to > be happening, anyway?
No. This is stuff that is going away. It is a kludge that happens to work today.
Andries
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