Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:00:28 -0600 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency Message-ID: <199503191400.IAA24755@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 00:05:59 PST." <199503190805.AAA22831@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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> For scsi the only unreal value is sectors/track. All other values are > as reported by the drive. Since s/t can vary either the other two numbers are made up (and not real) or you have to make up a s/t value (and thus they're not useful). The only useful information the SCSI drive reports is the total number of blocks (unless it's a very old drive like mine that tells the absolute truth in all three categories, but is dinosaurs are in the minority). (boy, look at all the people on the CC line... snip snip)
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