From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 13:35:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA12433 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:35:14 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA12425 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:35:11 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA22149; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:34:49 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199501242134.NAA22149@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions To: dima@sunny.bog.msu.su (Dmitry Khrustalev) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:34:44 -0800 (PST) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Dmitry Khrustalev" at Jan 24, 95 10:37:31 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 830 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > > Not all SCSI devices are thus translated? > > > > mostly they are, unless the "> 1GB" option is set. > > > > > > Sorry, this isn't really a valid reason for lying about the geometry > > Hey terry, you lost the reason: A scsi-disk >HAS< no geometry we should > > care about. > > It seems you are wrong: you can query scsi-2 disk for it's geometry. > For details, see ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/scsiinfo/scsiinfo-3.3.shar.gz The operative word is "that we should care about". You extract that geometry and explain it to UFS, I have no problems with it. Until such code appears, we have all kinds of problems with it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)