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From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed
Message-ID: <wilko.731954532@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Mar 93 16:42:12 GMT
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peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>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.

Agreed. But still 64 * 32 is a Mb you waste....

Wilko
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