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Date:      Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:26:57 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk disk.c 
Message-ID:  <13387.1036337217@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Nov 2002 20:35:47 PST." <20021103043547.GB2880@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> 

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In message <20021103043547.GB2880@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar write
s:

>Technically speaking, yes. I think however that the media size
>reported by GEOM is always the product of cyl, head and sect.

No, GEOM reports whatever the device driver (or other GEOM class)
decides.

>It doesn't necessarily match the true or actual size of the medium.

Then that is a device driver error.

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