From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 8: 5:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web209.mail.yahoo.com (web209.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 994B237BD82 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:05:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fjrm@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 26826 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Aug 2000 15:05:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20000809150529.26825.qmail@web209.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [208.139.165.5] by web209.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:05:29 PDT Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:05:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Francisco Reyes Subject: Re: rpm report on disklabel always shows 3600? To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Greg Lehey wrote: >> Is the rpm display from disklable accurate? > No. > Like most fields in the disklabel report, this is dummy > information. The fields no longer have any meaning. Does FreeBSD has this information anywhere? Is it even possible? I don't know much about drives, but I guess that unless they have some common API that the OS can use to query them that it would be quite unpractical to get specs from drives (i.e. it would require different routines for different drives) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message