In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hay wri tes: >> : Hmmm. I just noticed that the disks probe with zero values for the >> : heads, sectors/track and cylinders. I have tried two different USB >> : CF readers and both do it. On 4.x it probes with the correct values >> : on the same machine and the same devices. So why do they probe >> : wrong? >> >> Don't know. I've had problems with CF readers returning the wrong >> geometry values in 4.3, but never 0's > >Ok, I found it. It is part of the rev 1.61 change to umass.c. It was >made in June. :-/ The relevant piece is this:
>So the question now is do we just leave umass like this, which means we >can't do low level disk stuff on umass devices, or do we add something >like this back or is there another way? Is there a way to get the real >geometry of the device? We should obviously fix it. I have no idea what is possible in USB devices in this respect. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
