From owner-freebsd-commit Wed Apr 12 14:34:52 1995 Return-Path: commit-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA26163 for commit-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 14:34:52 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA26143 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 14:34:49 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA26024 ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 14:34:07 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA26887 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:23:15 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Thu, 13 Apr 95 01:23:13 +0400 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id BAA02669; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:24:41 +0400 To: Bruce Evans , phk@ref.tfs.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, dufault@hda.com, julian@tfs.com References: <199504121922.FAA23975@godzilla.zeta.org.au> In-Reply-To: <199504121922.FAA23975@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Thu, 13 Apr 1995 05:22:48 +1000 Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:24:41 +0400 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.32 FreeBSD] From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi scsi_base.c Lines: 17 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 767 Sender: commit-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199504121922.FAA23975@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans writes: >(3) I oversimplified. It's useful if the BIOS geometry is unknown >or wrong. E.g., for my 4.3G drive, the BIOS geometry may be is >C=1023/H=64/S=32, which loses over 3/4 of the drive, while the >geometry printed by the recently restored printf is >"(8410200 S), 4076 C 20 H 103 S/T". The problem will be worse for >drives larger than 8GB. Similar case was the main purpose of my change. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849