From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 2 11:23:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA17960 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17955 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:23:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA08906 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:23:09 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA21218 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:21:08 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA02333 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:21:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id UAA10603 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 20:27:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604021827.UAA10603@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: fdisk and partition info To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 20:27:43 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199604012004.NAA14051@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 1, 96 01:04:37 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > However, these numbers are `real', but inaccessible. The SCSI > > protocol doesn't let you enter any of these numbers in a SCSI command. > > That's why you cannot turn off the ``translation''. > > Again, the translation I refer to is that which is done by the BIOS. Again, all SCSI BIOSes must translate, since SCSI is LBA by definition, while the int 0x13 interface is C/H/S by definition. FreeBSD does never translate, since it uses LBA as its API to the driver. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)