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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:04:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@van-laarhoven.org>
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Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk
 broken
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See XPT_CALC_GEOMETRY in /sys/dev/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Nick Hibma wrote:
> Let's work on the 'proper' solution first.
> 
> What SCSI commands are suitable for getting the geometry, generically
> on a device?
> 
> Nick
> 
> > 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 :-(
> >
> > Warner
> >


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