From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 4 13: 2:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649CA37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:02:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8816D43E6E for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 7878 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Nov 2002 21:02:36 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:02:36 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken In-Reply-To: <99421.1036265623@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200211021925.gA2JP8IY010112@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>, John Hay wri > tes: > >Hmmm. I just noticed that the disks probe with zero values for the > heads, sectors/track and cylinders. I have tried two different USB > >CF readers and both do it. On 4.x it probes with the correct values > >on the same machine and the same devices. So why do they probe > >wrong? > > I have no idea either, but the answer must be somewhere in the da driver... Please don't assume. It's up to the transport driver to support the XPT_CALC_GEOMETRY command and umass removed its preliminary support without providing a working alternative. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message