In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Lawson writ
es:
>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.

Well, it will have to be MD, because PC98 seems to prefer different
geometries than PC bios.

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