Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:34:44 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: dima@sunny.bog.msu.su (Dmitry Khrustalev) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions Message-ID: <199501242134.NAA22149@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950124222808.17078B-100000@sunny> from "Dmitry Khrustalev" at Jan 24, 95 10:37:31 pm
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> On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > > Not all SCSI devices are thus translated? > > > > mostly they are, unless the "> 1GB" option is set. > > > > > > Sorry, this isn't really a valid reason for lying about the geometry > > Hey terry, you lost the reason: A scsi-disk >HAS< no geometry we should > > care about. > > It seems you are wrong: you can query scsi-2 disk for it's geometry. > For details, see ftp://ftp.cdf.toronto.edu/pub/scsiinfo/scsiinfo-3.3.shar.gz The operative word is "that we should care about". You extract that geometry and explain it to UFS, I have no problems with it. Until such code appears, we have all kinds of problems with it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)
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