Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:53:56 -0100 From: Darius Moos <moos@webmore.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: bug in disktab-manpage Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970317095354.006c0a6c@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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Hi,
(if the following has already been mentioned, please excuse and ignore)
a few days ago i configured my ZIP-100-SCSI drive and installed a UFS on
one disk. While reading the disktab(5)-manpage (on FBSD-2.1.5) it seems that
there is a minor bug in it.
man 5 disktab says:
...
ns num Number of sectors per track
nt num Number of tracks per cylinder
nc num Total number of cylinders on the disk
sc num Number of sectors per cylinder, nc*nt default
su num Number of sectors per unit, sc*nc default
In my understandind of this (and i am everything else than a disktab-guru)
the formula for "sc" should be:
sc num Number of sectors per cylinder, ns*nt default
^^
with this change the formula for "su" gets also the right meaning.
Maybe this is already corrected on FBSD-2.2+, i don't know. Could anyone
comment on this.
Darius Moos.
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