While trying to track down some problems with my old i486 dropping ppp
packets, I ran into some anomalies with /proc/ide.
I have 4 IDE drives and I noticed that /proc/hd[ac]/geometry reports a
negative physical cylinder count while /proc/hd[bd]/geometry reports
positive values. The logical geometries are correct. Is this a problem?
No.
The patch below will make them positive again, I suppose.
(this is on /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ide-proc.c or so)
--- ide-proc.c~ Wed May 6 23:42:53 1998
+++ ide-proc.c Thu Oct 14 18:18:31 1999
@@ -516,8 +516,10 @@
char *out = page;
int len;
- out += sprintf(out,"physical %hi/%hi/%hi\n", drive->cyl, drive->head, drive->sect);
- out += sprintf(out,"logical %hi/%hi/%hi\n", drive->bios_cyl, drive->bios_head, drive->bios_sect);
+ out += sprintf(out,"physical %d/%d/%d\n",
+ drive->cyl, drive->head, drive->sect);
+ out += sprintf(out,"logical %d/%d/%d\n",
+ drive->bios_cyl, drive->bios_head, drive->bios_sect);
len = out - page;
PROC_IDE_READ_RETURN(page,start,off,count,eof,len);
}
-
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