Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:19:57 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: n_hibma@van-laarhoven.org (Nick Hibma) Cc: imp@bsdimp.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken Message-ID: <200211041719.gA4HJvaG014484@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20021104094650.U17734-100000@uitsmijter.van-laarhoven.org> from Nick Hibma at "Nov 4, 2002 09:51:07 am"
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> > Let's work on the 'proper' solution first. > > What SCSI commands are suitable for getting the geometry, generically > on a device? Hmmm, I made an interesting discovery. I searched through some of the scsi drivers, sys/dev/{aha|ahb|aic*|sym}, looking for XPT_CALC_GEOMETRY and they all fake the geometry. :-/ > > fdisk likely should do something sane in the face of such insanity, > > but it is unclear what and fdisk is a royal pita to work on anyway :-( John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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