From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 22:51:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA01189 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:51:56 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA01182 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:51:55 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA22434; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:51:14 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503190651.WAA22434@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:51:14 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM In-Reply-To: <199503190639.QAA09163@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 19, 95 04:39:13 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 629 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'