Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:40:44 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs) 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: <199501242140.NAA22227@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199501242039.MAA23769@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jan 24, 95 12:39:41 pm
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> If we can always determine the translated geometry correctly, then I would > suggest printing that at the time the SCSI bus is attached. By all means, except nobody have come up with any code yet. The bios-values are already in the kernel, we just need some way to match them to the drives we find. Best suggestion so far: Make a checksum of 4 sectors (#100, #200, #300 & #400 for instance) when asking the bios (in the bootblocks :-( ) and match that to what we find during disk-probe/attach. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)
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