From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 4 15:46:38 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 E867F37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEB243E75 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0210.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.210] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 188qvD-0005c7-00; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:46:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3DC70676.58DF8839@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:44:54 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Lawson Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean diskbroken References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Nate Lawson wrote: > 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. Perhaps we could invent a Common Access Method ("CAM"), and make it part of that API... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message