Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:14:05 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Bruce Cran <brucec@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r216269 - head/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <4CFEB1AD.70906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4CFEAFA6.4020103@feral.com> References: <201012072046.oB7KkB4L079555@svn.freebsd.org> <4CFEAD09.30904@freebsd.org> <4CFEAFA6.4020103@feral.com>
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on 08/12/2010 00:05 Matthew Jacob said the following: > > > On 12/7/2010 1:54 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 07/12/2010 22:46 Bruce Cran said the following: >>> Don't warn if a partition appears not to be aligned on a track boundary. >>> Modern disks use LBA and create a fake CHS geometry that doesn't have any >>> relation to the on-disk layout of data. >> You repeated that statement, so I am picking on you :-) >> Can someone show me how/where exactly modern drives fakes CHS geometry? >> > > cf cam_calc_geometry But that's not drive firmware code :-) It's us faking those parameters for ourselves for some unknown reason. Stupid us :-) But not the drives / manufacturers. -- Andriy Gapon
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