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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 1995 00:05:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM
Subject:   Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency
Message-ID:  <199503190805.AAA22831@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503190651.WAA22434@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 18, 95 10:51:14 pm

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> 
> > Where are users supposed to get the correct information from?  The C/H/S
> > info printed by the driver is the _only_ info obtained in a reliable way
> > (at least if you fix the info printing bug introduced in revision 1.31
> > of wd.c).  The geometry guessed from the partition table is only
> 
> Ahh, we misunderstand each other!
> 
> I'm only talking about sd.c, not wd.c.
> 
> For wd.c disks the information has a very real value, for scsi: absolutely 
> none.

For scsi the only unreal value is sectors/track.  All other values are
as reported by the drive.



-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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