limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (05/30/89)
Well the program works, but I want to verify a couple things before I
send it out.
From the GVP documentation, SCSI Block numbers run 1..(whatever) and
MountList LowCyl minimum value is 1. All this starts-with-zero/
starts-with-one math works out, but do all hard drive controllers do
this? If the GVP controller calculates the first SCSI Block of a
partition to be (LowCyl-1) x Surfaces x BlocksPerTrack + 1
[compensating on the LowCyl and adds one at the end to map it to a
system where blocks run from 1 to (whatever)] should I assume that
they all do this? Do any other controllers have users set their
LowCyl to 0 so that the first SCSI Block of a partition is LowCyl x
Surfaces x BlocksPerTrack + 1 ?
Should I assume that they are all like GVP or should I make it a
user-selectable option?
-Tom
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