Re: aic7xxx_biosparam

Doug Ledford
2002-11-18T03:26:00Z

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 09:20:10PM -0600, J.E.J. Bottomley wrote:
> > visible in fdisk (well, after a module reload), so it get's used
> > somewhere.
>
> The argument is that no user space tools rely on the cyls value, only the
> sectors and heads. They all use the GETGEO ioctl, but also get the blocksize

That may very well be true and I'm all for that, but I'm still anal about
being right anyway, so I implemented what Andries suggested.

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