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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.

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