Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:29:04 -4600 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: fdisk and partition info Message-ID: <199603312229.AAA01348@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603312029.NAA11754@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 31, 96 01:29:21 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > What happens if you turn of translation on the things? > > I wonder how you wanna turn it off: [...] > Definitions for SCSI translation taking ZBR into account: > > Untranslated: H = Real number of heads > C = Real number of cylinders > S = ? (some average) > C * H * S = Actual number of sectors, or less > C/H/S is as reported by SCSI sense. However, these numbers are `real', but inaccessible. The SCSI protocol doesn't let you enter any of these numbers in a SCSI command. That's why you cannot turn off the ``translation''. -- 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. ;-)
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