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Message-ID: <480EDBA2.5000506@bfh.ch> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:48:02 +0200 From: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer@....ch> To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disk geometry from /sys 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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