From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 11:32:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA08299 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 11:32:03 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA08293 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 11:31:56 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA26275; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:33:03 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA22073 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:33:03 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id UAA10663; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:04:14 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199501241904.UAA10663@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:04:14 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199501241750.JAA21155@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 24, 95 09:50:37 am X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1263 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: | | > > > >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. ;-)