Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:17:45 +0200 From: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981015101745.00941bf0@mail.scancall.no>
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>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
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