kern/113837: [geom] unable to access 1024 sector size storage

[Bernard Steiner]

The following reply was made to PR kern/113837; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Bernard Steiner" <fbsd-send-pr at anydomain.de>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/113837: [geom] unable to access 1024 sector size storage
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:51:15 +0200

 Well... that was pretty fast :-(
 
 Address validator or Nigeran scammer:
 
 > Received: from sun.com (125.84.217.87.dynamic.jazztel.es [87.217.84.125])
 >         by $CENSORED (Postfix) with SMTP id 872F82A674
 >         for $MYADDRESS; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:01:09 +0200 (CEST)
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 > To: fbsd-send-pr $MYADDRESS
 > Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON THE BMW CAR PROMOTION
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 I'll toss that address and monitor the PR instead.
 Damn spammers.
 
 Anyway... some Linuxen seems to get a little friendlier with the concept of 1024 byte bocks:
 
 $ fdisk -b 1024 /dev/discs/disc4/disc
 You will not be able to write the partition table.
 
 Command (m for help): p
 
 Disk /dev/discs/disc4/disc: 2057 MB, 2057830400 bytes
 53 heads, 52 sectors/track, 729 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 2756 * 1024 = 2822144 bytes
 
                 Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/discs/disc4/part1               1        1459     4018957    6  FAT16
 Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
      phys=(0, 3, 55) logical=(0, 4, 36)
 Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
      phys=(996, 52, 52) logical=(1458, 18, 16)
 
 I haven't managed to mount the card on the router yet, though.
 Bernard