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Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh)
Feature #306443, revision 10
  Title: change parted to use Hardware suggested sectors per track
   
  openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger)
  reject date: 2009-08-11 15:45:20
  reject reason: Too late for openSUSE 11.2
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  Requested by: Dean Giles (dgiles)
   
Description:
  parted creates partitions which are automatically assigned 63 sectors
  per track. Hardware, such as HP raid devices, advertise that they want
  32 sectors per track. It advertises that through ioctl HDIO_GETGEO.
  fdisk can utilize the hardware reported sectors per track. parted needs
  to be changed to do the same. See bug # 501152.
  Dean
   
+ Discussion:
+ #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-10-15 21:25:15) 
+ SPT is meaningless with modern disks (especially metadevices such as
+ combined disks to a raid); furthermore modern operating systems only
+ use LBA; CHS is only for terribly old disks and for partitioning MSDOS
+ ptabs.
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/306443