Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:03:49 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211041358310.8054-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <39196.1036445314@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211041311450.7556-100000@root.org>, Nate Lawson writ > es: > >It might be more useful for GEOM to query the BIOS for the physical values > >and provide a way for upper levels (like CAM) to retrieve this. > > This is a driver task. besides GEOM is above CAM, not below it. Ok. There are two things that would be useful: 1. Merging the multiple LBA to C/H/S calculations (aic7xxx, umass, ...) to one CAM convenience routine. 2. Adding a MI way to call an MD routine that will get the disk's physical geometry. I don't know much about the best way to do this. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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