From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 12:19:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA09929 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 12:19:58 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA09921 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 12:19:45 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA01237; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:18:21 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199501242018.UAA01237@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:18:20 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de In-Reply-To: <199501241644.IAA20509@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 24, 95 08:44:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 683 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > >2117025 1819 cyl 15 heads 77 sec > > > Does anybody have anything remotely close to a good reason for not nuking > the above printf in sd.c and always report a 32/64/X geometry ?? > I dislike the idea. If you think the reported disk geometry is causing support hassles then just don't report it, don't pretend the disk reported something else instead even if that's what we use:-) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK