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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions
To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 10:20:50 MST
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> 
> > >2117025    1819 cyl 15 heads  77 sec
> > 
> Does anybody have anything remotely close to a good reason for not nuking
> the above printf in sd.c and always report a 32/64/X geometry ??

Not all SCSI devices are thus translated?

Hold on! How about because the kernel should know the real BIOS apparent
geometry for instead of making things up like that?

No, no, wait!  I have a better one... because you could just add
descriptive text to inform the user of the physical vs. the translated
geometry?

I've got it!  I've got it!  Because some of us don't install DOS boot
blocks or partitioning at all, even though the implication is that we
are supposed to?

}B-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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