From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 13:41:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA12553 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:41:04 -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 NAA12546 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:41:01 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA22227; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:40:47 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199501242140.NAA22227@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:40:44 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de In-Reply-To: <199501242039.MAA23769@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jan 24, 95 12:39:41 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 647 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)