Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 07 May 2002 15:29:28 +0100 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 57 |
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At 15:08 07/05/02, 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]$ ideinfo bash: ideinfo: command not found
Obviously distros haven't caught up with this development. )-:
Care to give me a URL? A quick google for "ideinfo Linux download" didn't bring up anything looking relevant.
> > [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?
I want to know this info. (-: Admittedly normal users don't need it... It is useful for diagnosing problems with NTFS and MD setups for example (in conjunction with fdisk -l shown in sectors).
> > 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.
I like text parsing... It is not performance critical and makes info human readable... Whether existing text parsers are any good or not, I don't care, write a better one if you don't like the existing one or go beat up the people who wrote the bad ones... That seems to be Martin's standard reply, so I thought I would use it, too. (-;
Best regards,
Anton
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