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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 02:10:40 GMT Message-ID: <C3r7Dt.6vG@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar11.095507.6095@marie.uucp> <wilko.731857153@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Lines: 12 In article <wilko.731857153@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: > In case of an Adaptec 154x this means a waste of 1 Mbyte of disk space > because of the translation in the controller. Not ideal IMHO This is silly. With a SCSI drive the whole cylinder/track/sector nonesense should be discarded. The SCSI driver should present BSD with a 1-sector "cylinder" size... after all, the mapping is arbitrary. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.