From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 28 15:05:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA01915 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01908 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id XAA01269; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 23:35:10 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199608282135.XAA01269@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Determining disk type & size To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 23:35:09 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608282008.WAA00279@eac.iafrica.com> from "Robert Nordier" at Aug 28, 96 10:08:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Most of the userland code I've looked at doesn't seem to handle this > very elegantly, where it checks. And some of my attempts to do the > obvious seem to produce inconsistent results (below). > > Thanks. > > -- > Robert Nordier > > ----- fdtest output ----- > > ./fdtest /dev/fd0 > sectors per cylinder: 158 [<-- 30 expected] 158 = 30 + 128 maybe bit 7 is not significant, or used for different purposes. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================