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Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken
In-Reply-To: <20021104094650.U17734-100000@uitsmijter.van-laarhoven.org> from Nick Hibma at "Nov 4, 2002 09:51:07 am"
To: n_hibma@van-laarhoven.org (Nick Hibma)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:19:57 +0200 (SAT)
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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
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