Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:27:34 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De (Wolfgang Helbig) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: wd driver questions Message-ID: <199703162027.NAA22140@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199703161651.RAA02230@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> from "Wolfgang Helbig" at Mar 16, 97 05:51:05 pm
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It seems that Wolfgang Helbig said: > > > And, how (if at all) does the geometry written to the disklabel > > figure into the operation/calculations of the driver? > > As far as I could decipher from the driver code (wd.c) the probed geometry > is used only to read the label. From there on the geometry read from the > label is used exclusively by the driver. Both are the same, if you > disklabel auto. > But I'm not really sure about my findings. >From *my* observations, it doesn't look like the disklabel geometry is used at *all*! (at least, not in the driver... I have no idea if other tools (fdisk, newfs) use the geometry from the disklabel (since it would be difficult for them to get it otherwise?)) --don
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