on 08/12/2010 01:11 Bruce Cran said the following: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:06:24 +0000 > Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: >> I guess the fields are still defined to keep old tools happy. > > I mean that values are still returned by the drive firmware, > while they could be left zero according to the spec. For example a new > 1TB ATA-8 drive returns a geometry of 16H/63S/16383C in those fields.
Right. But we shouldn't bother reading those values, because they are specified as unused. Well, some retarded 10+ years old software should probably be kept happy, but modern FreeBSD is not like that, right? :) -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
