From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 15:24:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21380 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:24:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21364 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA26542 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:24:34 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA15351 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:24:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id XAA04940 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:41:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603302241.XAA04940@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: fdisk and partition info To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:41:36 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603291712.KAA05715@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 29, 96 10:12:25 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > I don't see any such assumption. I have 3 SCSI controllers: U34F, > > BT445C and SC200. I've only used the U34F with 64/32 geometry. > > The BT445C and the SC200 work with assorted drives in assorted > > translation modes giving 64/32, 128/32 and 255/63 geometries. > > What happens if you turn of translation on the things? (yes, I > know this is not a possibility for Adaptec). I wonder how you wanna turn it off: the SCSI protocol does only know about locical block numbers, so if you wanna interface the drive with some int 0x13 C/H/S value, you always end up with some sort of translation. If you speak directly in SCSI block numbers, nothing will be translated at any time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)