Subject: geometry mismatch
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/11/1999 20:30:53
I get this with a brand new Quantum Viking II:
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 8338 heads: 5 sectors/track: 213 (1065 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 554 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)

Here's what the kernel probes:
sd0: 4350 MB, 8338 cyl, 5 head, 213 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8910423
sectors

Note that in neither case the number of sectors looks quite right.
Should I just trust what the kernel gives me, or...?

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