On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Henning Kiel wrote:

> This may help?
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST15230N, 0168> SCSI2 0/direct
> fixed
> sd0: 4095 MB, 3992 cyl, 19 head, 110 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8386733 sectors
> sd0: sync (100.0ns offset 8), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers
>
> sec*head*cyl = 3992*2090 = 8343280
> someone seems to be confused in calculations!?

Heh, I see where the confusion lies. The cylinder/head/sector values for
scsi drives are ficticious. They are approximations calculated by the
kernel. The "8386733 sectors" is what is reported by the drive itself.

I need to look into why this is causing problems for the disklabel code.

In the meantime, your workaround should at least be able to get you up and
running.

Cheers, Steve