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Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:39:38 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove geometry support from ps3 storage driver
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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:53:11PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> The old ps3_storage driver did not support DOS geometry, so there is no
> point to start adding code for it.

That's not quite true.  sd applies some heuristics  and has a default
geometry if there is no ->bios_param method.  Then again this whole
gemetry thing really only makes sense on x86.