Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:21:58 +0000 (GMT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions Message-ID: <199501242121.VAA10908@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199501242018.UAA01237@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jan 24, 95 08:18:20 pm
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> > In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > > > >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 ?? > > > > I dislike the idea. If you think the reported disk geometry is causing > support hassles then just don't report it, don't pretend the disk > reported something else instead even if that's what we use:-) How about changing it like this: OLD: sd0: 1169MB (2395980 total sec), 2448 cyl, 14 head, 69 sec, bytes/sec 512 NEW: sd0: 1169MB (2395980 total sec), 2448 cyl, 14 head, VAR sec, bytes/sec 512 One very small change, the other numbers are exact as reported by the SCSI spec. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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