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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko 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 References: <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar11.095507.6095@marie.uucp> <wilko.731857153@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <C3r7Dt.6vG@sugar.neosoft.com> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 17 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 -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Enterprise voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands