From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 15 01:23:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22444 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 01:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.scancall.no (www.scancall.no [195.139.183.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA22438 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 01:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no) Received: from super2.langesund.scancall.no [195.139.183.29] by www with smtp id JCTLZQTJ; Thu, 15 Oct 98 08:22:42 GMT (PowerWeb version 4.04r6) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981015101745.00941bf0@mail.scancall.no> X-Sender: Marius@mail.scancall.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:17:45 +0200 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Marius Bendiksen Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Great! anything we could use perhaps ?? I don't think that's very likely. It was just necessary to get my pet OS project to work some years back :) >There is no difference in formatting, its only a question on what >you call the track/head/sector registers, which you should know if >you have written an IDE driver ;) As I said, some years back, at which point I (as I recall) only used LBA, so the issue is not something I've considered. >The only thing thats important is to know the geometry used when the >data was written onto disk, then use that to calculate a sequential >sector number, then recalc that back to the current geometry. Okay. Let's mv LBA /dev/null then. --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message