Re: obsd: nothing but trouble on ...

[gaw zay <gauze_(_at_)_unixpunx_(_dot_)_org>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marco S Hyman wrote:

>  > just to mention it I also had a "XXX sectors in the last cylander
>  > unallocated" message and the same freezing problems. perhaps there is
>  > something to this. 
> 
> Nope.   Coincidence.  With modern disk drives the whole concept of
> `cylinders' is somewhat bogus.   Your disk has n blocks.  The OS picks
> a somewhat arbitrary blocks/cylinder value.   If that value is not modulo
> the number of blocks you'll get a remainder... the XXX sectors in the last
> cylinder message just means that it's easier to ignore the `short' cylinder
> than add special case code for it.

oh well. 

how modern is modern anyway? This drive I have is 406M which is a
far cry from 'modern' but it ain't st-506 either. Still my 3rd biggest HD
out of 7 computers (w/9HDs). 

brian