Subject: Re: Of SCSI disks and things amiss
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/29/1996 12:34:22
Okay, that's an objection.
> a) stop pretending we have any idea what the geometry of a SCSI disk
> is, and just make it one large track, or
Questionable. We still need the BIOS geometry for, say, fdisk, and
fdisk will retrieve the geometry recorded in the label.
> b) make the warning from disklabel(8) non-fatal.
Maybe the disklabel should display a sectors per unit in the label,
rather than always computing it based on the geometry? That ought to
be an easy change; I'll do that instead and get back to you.