on 10/12/2010 03:10 Erik Trulsson said the following: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:36:57AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 10/12/2010 00:14 Bruce Cran said the following: >>> Since it appears that disks are still using the CHS fields despite >>> having been obsolete since ATA-7 I guess it makes sense to continue >>> printing them.
Label1: >> I apologize for repeating myself, that probably starts to be annoying... >> We read some reserved/unused/obsolete bytes and get some garbage in them. >> The fact that the garbage looks like "valid" (for some definition of "valid") >> CHS parameters doesn't mean that those are really valid, or CHS parameters, >> or >> we should use them, or we should even report them, even for debug. >> That's my personal position and I am sticking to it :-) > > > No. Those bytes may be obsolete, and might be reserved by the latest > version(s) of the ATA standard, but they are not unused and they do not > contain garbage. They do contain CHS parameters as set by the drive > manufacturers, and should continue to be reported as such by the tools > we have that provide disk information. So, your personal belief/interpretation against mine, fair enough. Can't add anything except go to $Label1. :-) -- 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"
