Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:45:30 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@van-laarhoven.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, "phk@critter.freebsd.dk" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "imp@bsdimp.com" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken Message-ID: <20021104094319.K17734-100000@uitsmijter.van-laarhoven.org> In-Reply-To: <200211040802.gA482oJj093121@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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