Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

Padraig Brady
2002-05-07T14:04:08Z

Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Mon May 6 13:29:44 CEST 2002 ide-clean-56
>

[snip]

> OK. After realizing the simple fact that quite a lot of low level
> hardware manipulating ioctls may require assistance in usage from
> proper logic which is *very* unlikely to be implemented in a bash
> (for me preferable still ksh) I have made my mind up.
>
> /proc/ide will be nuked.

Please consider this carefully, especially the read only bits.
One particular thing I use a lot is: /proc/ide/hda/capacity
Will there be another interface easily usable by scripts
to get this information?

Am I going to have to parse hdparm output?
....
geometry = 2434/255/63, sectors = 39102336, start = 0

Am I going to need hdparm on my embedded system?

Padraig.