Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:28:00 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, dufault@hda.com, julian@tfs.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi scsi_base.c Message-ID: <CJWN4ZleS9@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199504121930.MAA09852@ref.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp at Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:30:34 -0700 (PDT) References: <199504121930.MAA09852@ref.tfs.com>
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In message <199504121930.MAA09852@ref.tfs.com> Poul-Henning Kamp
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.
>I consider ""(8410200 S)" size, which is useful, and "4076 C 20 H 103 S/T"
>geometry which is bogus...
It isn't bogus when your disklabel or partition table is damaged
somehow. My disk f.e. don't have any C/H/S info on its label and
Adaptec BIOS don't show it too. I forced to reboot with verbose
in old variant.
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