| Date | Tue, 07 May 2002 15:02:10 +0100 | From | Padraig Brady <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 |
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Martin Dalecki wrote: > Mon May 6 13:29:44 CEST 2002 ide-clean-56 >
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> OK. After realizing the simple fact that quite a lot of low level > hardware manipulating ioctls may require assistance in usage from > proper logic which is *very* unlikely to be implemented in a bash > (for me preferable still ksh) I have made my mind up. > > /proc/ide will be nuked.
Please consider this carefully, especially the read only bits. One particular thing I use a lot is: /proc/ide/hda/capacity Will there be another interface easily usable by scripts to get this information?
Am I going to have to parse hdparm output? .... geometry = 2434/255/63, sectors = 39102336, start = 0
Am I going to need hdparm on my embedded system?
Padraig.
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