disk geometry not displayed in parted version 1.6.21

[benoit ribot]

Hello

With previous versions of parted, it was possible to know the geometry 
of the disk (CHS). This information is very precious and is not always 
present or exact for very large disks (e.g. SCSI disk of more than 2 
TBytes) in /var/log/messages or through the command hdparm.

Could you insert it in your code for the next versions please

Here are the output of parted version 1.6.21 and that of 1.6.11 :



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situation n°1
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with parted version 1.6.21 I enter the command : > parted /dev/sdb
the result is :

GNU Parted 1.6.21
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 
WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 
FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

On utilise /dev/sdb
(parted)


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situation n°2
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with parted version 1.6.11 I enter the command : > parted /dev/sdb
the result is :

GNU Parted 1.6.11 with HFS shrink patch 12.5
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU 
General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/sdb
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/sdb is 
680512/255/63.
Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032,499M.
(parted)



Thanks you

Cheers

Benoît RIBOT, Systèmes et réseaux
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