Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:35:09 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, sos@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskslice.c src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_disksubr.c src/sys/scsi od.c sd.cO Message-ID: <199612011635.RAA23486@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <199612011329.AAA20664@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Dec 2, 96 00:29:20 am
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
>
>
> > Modified: sys/kern subr_diskslice.c
> > sys/ufs/ufs ufs_disksubr.c
> > sys/scsi od.c sd.c
> > sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c
> > sbin/newfs mkfs.c newfs.c
> > Log:
> > This update adds the support for != 512 byte sector SCSI devices to
> > the sd & od drivers. There is also slight changes to fdisk & newfs
> > in order to comply with different sectorsizes.
> > Currently sectors of size 512, 1024 & 2048 are supported, the only
> > restriction beeing in fdisk, which hunts for the sectorsize of
> > the device.
> > This is based on patches to od.c and the other system files by
> > John Gumb & Barry Scott, minor changes and the sd.c patches by
> > me.
>
> Urk. This version does the scaling in the wrong place. The scaling
> belongs in subr_diskslice.c, not in dozens of drivers. I was planning to
> use the version by akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp (Shunsuke Akiyama) in the kernel.
This works for me, but feel free to change it to something better....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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