svn commit: r194241 - head/lib/libdisk

[Marcel Moolenaar]

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.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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