svn commit: r194241 - head/lib/libdisk

[Ulf Lilleengen]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
> 
>> Author: lulf
>> Date: Mon Jun 15 16:18:24 2009
>> New Revision: 194241
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194241
>>
>> Log:
>>  - Relax sanitazion requirements in libdisk, as a previous commit
>> enabling this
>>    sanitization broke sysinstall on some disks.  This was due to the
>> disks
>>    reporting a geometry that was incorrectly sanitized by sysinstall.
>> This makes
>>    the sanitization consistent with fdisk.
> 
> *snip*
> 
>> +    if (disk->bios_hd > 256)
>>         sane = 0;
> 
> 
> The number of heads cannot exceed 255. There are only 8-bits
> in which the number of heads is stored. This also applies to
> PC98, BTW.
> 
Aha, so I should fix fdisk too then. Thanks.