Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 23:35:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Determining disk type & size Message-ID: <199608282135.XAA01269@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199608282008.WAA00279@eac.iafrica.com> from "Robert Nordier" at Aug 28, 96 10:08:01 pm
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> Most of the userland code I've looked at doesn't seem to handle this > very elegantly, where it checks. And some of my attempts to do the > obvious seem to produce inconsistent results (below). > > Thanks. > > -- > Robert Nordier > > ----- fdtest output ----- > > ./fdtest /dev/fd0 > sectors per cylinder: 158 [<-- 30 expected] 158 = 30 + 128 maybe bit 7 is not significant, or used for different purposes. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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