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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>
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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>.
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