From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 17:43:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E0A37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B4343F85 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 21C61A804; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:43:38 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFA55430; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:43:38 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:43:38 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: Terry Lambert In-Reply-To: <3EDB7214.B9004DF7@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20030603104218.J71780-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieving disk geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 00:43:40 -0000 On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > All the geometries returned by this call are fictitous these days, > so there's really no value to it. I'm just trying to port some software that used to work under 4.x so I was trying to do as few changes as possible. I have to admit I haven't really looked into what it does with the numbers exactly. Andrew