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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 15:02:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56
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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.