From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 4 22:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D9D37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:42:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8D543E3B for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA56g49d039530; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 07:42:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Nate Lawson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: umass CF geometry problems, was Re: fdisk -BI ob clean disk broken In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2002 14:03:49 PST." Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 07:42:04 +0100 Message-ID: <39529.1036478524@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Nate Lawson writ es: >On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message , 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