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Date:      Tue, 24 Jan 1995 20:18:20 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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:  <199501242018.UAA01237@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199501241644.IAA20509@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 24, 95 08:44:53 am

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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said
> 
> > >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 ??
> 

I dislike the idea. If you think the reported disk geometry is causing
support hassles then just don't report it, don't pretend the disk
reported something else instead even if that's what we use:-)

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
  Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK



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