From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 17 6:13:36 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 4FF3A37B401; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 06:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from watery.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp (watery.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp [133.80.152.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5761E43ED4; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 06:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by watery.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBHEDWnq022635; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:13:33 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:11:16 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20021217.231116.71144639.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata driver From: Takahashi Yoshihiro In-Reply-To: <19314.1040132436@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20021217.214622.74695206.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <19314.1040132436@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 article <19314.1040132436@critter.freebsd.dk> phk@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > Is it only for ATA/IDE disks ? > Does it depend on the size of the disks ? Only for the internal IDE controller. The internal IDE controller on pc98 uses the fixed geometry which is 8 heads and 17 sectors. If the size of the disk is larger than 4.2GB (65535C x 8H x 17S x 512B), a different geometry depend on the disk is used. > Does it also affect SCSI disks ? No. --- TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message