From owner-cvs-sys Wed Apr 12 14:52:05 1995 Return-Path: cvs-sys-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA27074 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 14:52:05 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA27068 ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 14:51:54 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA04429 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:40:21 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Thu, 13 Apr 95 01:40:21 +0400 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id BAA02830; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:28:00 +0400 To: Bruce Evans , Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com, dufault@hda.com, julian@tfs.com References: <199504121930.MAA09852@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504121930.MAA09852@ref.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp at Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:30:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 01:28:00 +0400 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.32 FreeBSD] From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi scsi_base.c Lines: 24 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1044 Sender: cvs-sys-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <199504121930.MAA09852@ref.tfs.com> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> (3) I oversimplified. It's useful if the BIOS geometry is unknown >> or wrong. E.g., for my 4.3G drive, the BIOS geometry may be is >> C=1023/H=64/S=32, which loses over 3/4 of the drive, while the >> geometry printed by the recently restored printf is >> "(8410200 S), 4076 C 20 H 103 S/T". The problem will be worse for >> drives larger than 8GB. >I consider ""(8410200 S)" size, which is useful, and "4076 C 20 H 103 S/T" >geometry which is bogus... It isn't bogus when your disklabel or partition table is damaged somehow. My disk f.e. don't have any C/H/S info on its label and Adaptec BIOS don't show it too. I forced to reboot with verbose in old variant. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849