Feature changed by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #306443, revision 11 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. + #2: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2010-02-08 11:23:14) + I would think this should go to the upstream project. I don't see us + doing such things against parted project. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306443