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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: boot -v error in printing..
To: julian@freefall.FreeBSD.org (Julian Elischer)
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> BIOS Geometries:
>  0:03df3f20 991 cyl, 63 heads, 32 sects
>  0 accounted for
> 
> now, this is wrong..
> the # of heads is 64.. the LAST HEAD IS 63.. 0..63=64 heads
> either the message or teh number should be fixed..
> the same for the number of cyls..
> there are 992 cyls, the last being 991..
> 
> I think this needs to be fixed and am hapy to do so as long as no-one complains about it..

I like the idea of the ("0..%d=%d", x, x+1) format as a fix for this.

>  0:03df3f20 0..991=992 cyl, 0..63=64 heads, 0..31=32 sects

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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