Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:04:14 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions Message-ID: <199501241904.UAA10663@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <199501241750.JAA21155@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 24, 95 09:50:37 am
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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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 ??
Since it's the geometry the manufacter prefers to report back. It's
the perhaps most realistic guess that roughly maps 1:1 to the physical
geometry. (For what i've seen so far, the reported number of heads is
often exact, and the number of cylinders too.)
| > Not all SCSI devices are thus translated?
| mostly they are, unless the "> 1GB" option is set.
Which "> 1GB" option? Cannot remember one...
| true, except we cannot trust this one anymore :-( Some IDE and SCSI
| drivers get their "geometry" in CONFIG.SYS these days.
find / -name CONFIG.SYS
didn't report me any occurence of it. Which file do you refer to? >:-)
Seriously, unless i really have a machine co-existing with messydos,
i *never* used the 32/64 hack so far. (And this case hit for one
out of five or six machines for me.)
--
cheers, J"org work: --- no longer ---
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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