Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 22:54:08 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: And the winner is! Message-ID: <199602032154.WAA23224@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602032136.OAA04374@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 3, 96 02:36:35 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > disklabel -Brw sdX auto > > disklabel -e sdX > What is the limiting factor on simply coding all the disk drivers to > return either a fictitious (but always usable) geometry, or at a > minimum, a total number of sectors for a device? That's exactly what i'm using in the ``auto'' case. (Or what else did you expect? It's still only water to cook with...) > In keeping with the devfs discussion on the -current list, the total > number of sectors ought to be available from both phical devices (this > case) and logical devices (the slice/partition management case). The slices don't (yet) return this information, that's why it's currently limited to dedicated disks. -- 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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