Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:24:41 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, phk@ref.tfs.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, dufault@hda.com, julian@tfs.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi scsi_base.c Message-ID: <vJPK4ZleS9@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199504121922.FAA23975@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Thu, 13 Apr 1995 05:22:48 %2B1000 References: <199504121922.FAA23975@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199504121922.FAA23975@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans
writes:
>(3) I oversimplified. It's useful if the BIOS geometry is unknown
>or wrong. E.g., for my 4.3G drive, the BIOS geometry may be is
>C=1023/H=64/S=32, which loses over 3/4 of the drive, while the
>geometry printed by the recently restored printf is
>"(8410200 S), 4076 C 20 H 103 S/T". The problem will be worse for
>drives larger than 8GB.
Similar case was the main purpose of my change.
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