Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:52:27 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@van-laarhoven.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: "imp@bsdimp.com" <imp@bsdimp.com>, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, "phk@critter.freebsd.dk" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken Message-ID: <20021104205150.L214-100000@heather.van-laarhoven.org> In-Reply-To: <200211041719.gA4HJvaG014484@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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Hm, the only one that does something different is the iir/iir.c driver.
I guess the best thing is to just copy what's in the aha driver.
Nick
> >
> > 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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