From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 00:07:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA02198 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:07:46 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA02192 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:07:43 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id AAA22831; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:05:59 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199503190805.AAA22831@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:05:59 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM In-Reply-To: <199503190651.WAA22434@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 18, 95 10:51:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 728 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Where are users supposed to get the correct information from? The C/H/S > > info printed by the driver is the _only_ info obtained in a reliable way > > (at least if you fix the info printing bug introduced in revision 1.31 > > of wd.c). The geometry guessed from the partition table is only > > Ahh, we misunderstand each other! > > I'm only talking about sd.c, not wd.c. > > For wd.c disks the information has a very real value, for scsi: absolutely > none. For scsi the only unreal value is sectors/track. All other values are as reported by the drive. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD