Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 10:20:50 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions Message-ID: <9501241720.AA12428@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199501241644.IAA20509@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 24, 95 08:44:53 am
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> > > >2117025 1819 cyl 15 heads 77 sec > > > Does anybody have anything remotely close to a good reason for not nuking > the above printf in sd.c and always report a 32/64/X geometry ?? Not all SCSI devices are thus translated? Hold on! How about because the kernel should know the real BIOS apparent geometry for instead of making things up like that? No, no, wait! I have a better one... because you could just add descriptive text to inform the user of the physical vs. the translated geometry? I've got it! I've got it! Because some of us don't install DOS boot blocks or partitioning at all, even though the implication is that we are supposed to? }B-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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