Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:43:44 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r216269 - head/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <4CFEC6B0.3030802@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20101207231129.771422fc@core.draftnet> References: <201012072046.oB7KkB4L079555@svn.freebsd.org> <4CFEAD09.30904@freebsd.org> <20101207230624.7b7a83d3@core.draftnet> <20101207231129.771422fc@core.draftnet>
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on 08/12/2010 01:11 Bruce Cran said the following: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:06:24 +0000 > Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: >> I guess the fields are still defined to keep old tools happy. > > I mean that values are still returned by the drive firmware, > while they could be left zero according to the spec. For example a new > 1TB ATA-8 drive returns a geometry of 16H/63S/16383C in those fields. Right. But we shouldn't bother reading those values, because they are specified as unused. Well, some retarded 10+ years old software should probably be kept happy, but modern FreeBSD is not like that, right? :) -- Andriy Gapon
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