re: 4K sector size (again) & cgd

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

>    Whatever I try to do at this point, writing of the disklabel fails
> (which I sort of expect, considering the discrepancies in the disklabel
> outputs).
> 
>    cgd.c has:
> 
> ------------------------------
>       /*
>        * XXX here we should probe the underlying device.  If we
>        *     are accessing a partition of type RAW_PART, then
>        *     we should populate our initial geometry with the
>        *     geometry that we discover from the device.
>        */
>       pdg = &cs->sc_dksc.sc_geom;
>       pdg->pdg_secsize = DEV_BSIZE;
>       pdg->pdg_ntracks = 1;
>       pdg->pdg_nsectors = 1024 * (1024 / pdg->pdg_secsize);
>       pdg->pdg_ncylinders = cs->sc_dksc.sc_size / pdg->pdg_nsectors;
> ------------------------------
> 
>   .. which looks suspiciously ... suspicious. I'm assuming that fixing
> that will increase the chances of the cgd device working properly on
> this disk.
> 
>    Just so I don't waste a bunch of time poking in the wrong places; am
> I looking at - what is likely - the problem?

this seems pretty likely.

does everything work fine without using cgd?  if so, then that's
more evidence for cgd being at fault.


.mrg.