Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 07:42:04 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken Message-ID: <39529.1036478524@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:03:49 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211041358310.8054-100000@root.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211041358310.8054-100000@root.org>, Nate Lawson writ es: >On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211041311450.7556-100000@root.org>, Nate Lawson writ >> es: >> >It might be more useful for GEOM to query the BIOS for the physical values >> >and provide a way for upper levels (like CAM) to retrieve this. >> >> This is a driver task. besides GEOM is above CAM, not below it. > >Ok. There are two things that would be useful: > >1. Merging the multiple LBA to C/H/S calculations (aic7xxx, umass, ...) to >one CAM convenience routine. Well, it will have to be MD, because PC98 seems to prefer different geometries than PC bios. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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