In article <Pine.NEB.4.61.0501080412290.196@irina.net.flo>,
	Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de> writes:
> in disklabel output, for some disks the "cylinders" in the summary at top 
> and the "Cyl 0 - xxx" for the whole disk partition differ (more in upper 
> summary vs. more in partition output).
> 
> Why?

At least for IDE disk the number of "cylinders" is initially set to
the value reported by the disk. And that's limitted by the standard
to 16383 IIRC. Just adjust that value when you edit the label.

> And which one is the physical layout?

"total sectors" is the value defining the size of the disk.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/