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Date:      Mon, 15 May 1995 08:31:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        phk@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-user@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/libdisk create_chunk.c
Message-ID:  <199505151531.IAA16717@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199505150707.AAA05336@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 15, 95 00:07:14 am

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> > phk         95/05/14 17:58:26
> > 
> >   Modified:    release/libdisk  create_chunk.c
> >   Log:
> >   Create_Chunk_DWIM will not allocate anything in the last cylinder of a
> >   CHUNK_BAD144 slice.
> 
> Wrong calculation, please use end of device - 1 track - 126 blocks.
> 
> Your 1 cylinder assumption will cause bad144 failures for device that
> have a cylinder size smaller than 126 blocks + 1 track.  (ie, 4 head,
> 17 sector drives require (126 + 17)/68 == 2 cylinders+2 sectors to work.
OK will do.


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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
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