From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 11:29:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB0137B401; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:29:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05F143E88; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:29:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA2JTipk071939; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:29:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:28:42 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021102.122842.35978977.imp@bsdimp.com> To: jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za Cc: current@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200211021925.gA2JP8IY010112@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20021102.111356.12003004.imp@bsdimp.com> <200211021925.gA2JP8IY010112@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <200211021925.gA2JP8IY010112@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> John Hay writes: : Hmmm. I just noticed that the disks probe with zero values for the : heads, sectors/track and cylinders. I have tried two different USB : CF readers and both do it. On 4.x it probes with the correct values : on the same machine and the same devices. So why do they probe : wrong? Don't know. I've had problems with CF readers returning the wrong geometry values in 4.3, but never 0's Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message