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From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@van-laarhoven.org>
To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk
 broken
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> Well the short version of the problem is that "fdisk -BI <disk>" works
> on -stable to get a FreeBSD partition on the Compact Flash. This does
> not work on -current anymore. I have traced that back to the commit
> in umass.c rev 1.61 that removed the fake geometry setting and just
> leave the cylinders, heads and sectors_per_track zero. This cause
> fdisk to coredump with a floating point error.

Hm, strange. I would think that a compact flasg is an ATAPI over CBI
device (see attach message in your dmesg). If that is the case, the
'fake setting' was not done in STABLE either and I would expect the
problem to be somewhere else. But that would contradict your research.

Nick


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