Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:52:25 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: PVinci@ix.netcom.com (Paul Vinciguerra) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: why does WD.C work?? Message-ID: <199503170552.VAA14760@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503170536.VAA16217@ix4.ix.netcom.com> from "Paul Vinciguerra" at Mar 16, 95 09:36:19 pm
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> What I see, is that the wdparam structure is wrong according to table 12
> of ATA. eg.
> word 0 General Config.
> word 1 # logical Cyl.
> word 2 reserved
> word 3 # logical heads.
> but wdparam looks like:
>
> struct wdparams {
> /* drive info */
> short wdp_config; /* general configuration */
> short wdp_fixedcyl; /* number of non-removable
> Cylinders */
> short wdp_removcyl; /* number of removable cylinders */
> short wdp_heads; /* number of heads */
> short wdp_unfbytespertrk; /* number of unformatted
> bytes/track */
The "reserved" field was indeed at one time intended to be used for
"removable" cylinders...
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
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