On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Lawson writ
> es:
> >It might be more useful for GEOM to query the BIOS for the physical values
> >and provide a way for upper levels (like CAM) to retrieve this.
> 
> This is a driver task.  besides GEOM is above CAM, not below it.

Ok.  There are two things that would be useful: 

1. Merging the multiple LBA to C/H/S calculations (aic7xxx, umass, ...) to
one CAM convenience routine.

2. Adding a MI way to call an MD routine that will get the disk's physical
geometry.  I don't know much about the best way to do this.

-Nate


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