Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2006-02-15 at 10:01 +0100, Seewer Philippe wrote:
> This would mean dropping the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl completely and force
> applications such as fdisk/sfdisk and even dosemu to determine disk
> geometry for themselves. Which I think actually would be the most
> correct approach.

In the IDE case the drive geometry has meaning in certain cases,
specifically the C/H/S drive addressing case with old old drives. 


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