bin/83619: 'diskinfo -t' fails with disks smaller than about 6.3GB.

[Matthew D. Fuller]

The following reply was made to PR bin/83619; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd at over-yonder.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/83619: 'diskinfo -t' fails with disks smaller than about 6.3GB.
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:56:17 -0500

 > >Description:
 >       apparently 'diskinfo -t' does not work with disks smaller than
 >       about 6.3GB.  however, instead of falling gracefully, it does
 >       it like this:
 
 Datapoints:
 
 da4
         2276762112      # mediasize in bytes (2.1G)
         Half stroke:    diskinfo: read error or disk too small for
         test.: Input/output error
 
 da0
         4569600000      # mediasize in bytes (4.3G)
         Short forward:  diskinfo: read error or disk too small for
         test.: Input/output error
         [ Got farther, note ]
 
 da5
         9173114880      # mediasize in bytes (8.5G)
         [ ran through fine ]
 
 
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