On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:07:15AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Sorry for the very late reply.  but better late then never :)
> Question.  Isn't everything LBA now?

Those machines are mostly >10 Years old so - No ...

> In any case, if you are trying to find out the particular geometry from
> the scsi mode pages, I think you have to implement code that queries
> that for you.  AFAIK, parted does not have this.

This is what i found out already - The kernel on != i386 and legacy
should not try to fake geometries but it does. Neither geometry actually
fits the real reported geometry which actually the prom uses to find
the label ...

Flo
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