At 21:58 24.06.97 -0400, John F. Woods wrote:

>If you have an unlabelled disk, I think the kernel invents a fictitious
>(there, I finally spelled it right today) disklabel whose d partition spans
>the whole disk (according to whatever the kernel thinks the geometry is)
>and is of type FS_UNUSED (newfs will thus refuse to use it, I think).
>Removable disks tend to have problems reporting geometry (since the
>geometry might depend on the media), 

They don't "do" made-up geometry as a policy. MOs don't, either.

>especially Iomega disks (whose
>programmers apparently are incapable of getting the MODE SENSE command
>right...).

Errm... "Unix Programmers still don't get the fact that ST506 disks with
fixed spt numbers are DEAD." It's the UFS code that's incapable of dealing
correctly with today's SCSI disks. -- Does anyone know about a 3.5" scsi or
ide disk > 100M/ < 5a that does *not* do ZBR?

	hauke


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