From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 06:49:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA08804 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 06:49:37 -0800 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA08798 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 06:49:34 -0800 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA12080 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:32:34 -0600 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA24758; 19 Mar 95 08:00:31 CST (Sun) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA24755; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:00:30 -0600 Message-Id: <199503191400.IAA24755@bonkers.taronga.com> X-Authentication-Warning: bonkers.taronga.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 00:05:59 PST." <199503190805.AAA22831@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.4.1 7/21/94 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:00:28 -0600 From: Peter da Silva Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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)