Hi Andre,
> You have to have something returned from the kernel to even attempt a WAG
> on geometry........Since we do this in the kernel, why should the resolts
> not be exported to USER-SPACE? This way ALL user-space utilities are
> using what the kernel declares...........
>
> If you refer to your 20GB reporting "16383/16/63" that is correct.....
> Go read the docs on http://www.t13.org/
[snip]
> > It would be absolutely magic if all the cylinder, head and sector
geometry
> > stuff could be ultimately removed all together. I see problems in hdparm
> > reporting ridiculous disk geometry on my 20GB disk.
The problem I see in hdparm is that I get this line from hdparm -i /dev/hde:
'CurSects = -4128706'
It doesn't look right.
- Dan
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