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From: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer@bfh.ch>
To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk geometry from /sys
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:48:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480EDBA2.5000506@bfh.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0804221310h6fdb9346q280f75ca2b85ff18@mail.gmail.com>

Francis Moreau wrote:
[snip]
> Just out of curiosity, what does scsi use for addressing IO operations ?
I'm quoting from http://www.mossywell.com/boot-sequence/
[quote]
LBA has been around since around 1981. It is the method used to access 
SCSI drives. However, in the mid-1990s IDE disks finally caught up with 
SCSI and started to use LBA as well.
[/quote]

Further Information is provided by wikipedia as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing

Have fun!
Philippe Seewer

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09 20:53 Disk geometry from /sys Francis Moreau
2008-04-09 21:28 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-09 21:52   ` Alan Cox
2008-04-09 22:16   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-04-10 14:52     ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-10 19:23   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-09 21:57 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-10 19:05   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-10 19:53     ` Mark Lord
2008-04-10 12:22 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-04-10 19:15   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-10 13:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-04-14 12:57 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-15  7:40   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-16  7:49     ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-17 14:09       ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-17 14:49         ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-18 13:22           ` Mark Lord
2008-04-18 13:37             ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-22 20:11               ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23  6:44                 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23  6:56                   ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-22 20:16             ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-22 22:44               ` Mark Lord
2008-04-23  6:53                 ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23  7:02                 ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23  9:33                   ` Seewer Philippe
2008-04-23 13:47                   ` Mark Lord
2008-04-22 20:10           ` Francis Moreau
2008-04-23  6:48             ` Seewer Philippe [this message]

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