Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:19:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: bde@freefall.freebsd.org (Bruce Evans) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskslice.c src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c Message-ID: <199606172119.XAA05056@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606171443.HAA22368@freefall.freebsd.org> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 17, 96 07:43:57 am"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > Moved initialization of defaults for the label for the whole disk from > disklabel(8) to the kernel (dsopen()). Drivers should initialize the > hardware values (rpm, interleave, skews). Drivers currently don't do > this, but it usually doesn't matter since rotational position stuff is > normally disabled. The `od' driver does now, and it's perhaps one of the rare occasions these days where it might be useful. (MOs having a `real' geometry.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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