From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 13:51:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA12923 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:51:04 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA12916 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:50:52 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA10908; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:21:59 GMT From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199501242121.VAA10908@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:21:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199501242018.UAA01237@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jan 24, 95 08:18:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 891 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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:-) How about changing it like this: OLD: sd0: 1169MB (2395980 total sec), 2448 cyl, 14 head, 69 sec, bytes/sec 512 NEW: sd0: 1169MB (2395980 total sec), 2448 cyl, 14 head, VAR sec, bytes/sec 512 One very small change, the other numbers are exact as reported by the SCSI spec. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD