"camcontrol identify ada0" and "diskinfo -v ada0" reporting different cylinders count

Andriy Gapon avg at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 17 14:09:47 UTC 2010


on 17/12/2010 14:17 Alexander Best said the following:
> On Fri Dec 17 10, Bruce Cran wrote:
>> See
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-December/023134.html
>> for a (very!) detailed discussion of the various ways of calculating
>> CHS values. Unfortunately no decision was reached so it looks like
>> we're going to have a mismatch between camcontrol, diskinfo, geom, cam
>> and ata for a while yet.
> 
> too bad. :( thanks for the link. i'll try to read through the entire thread,
> although i'm quite sure that the really techie details are too complicated for
> me to comprehend.

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Andriy Gapon


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