Re: cache size wrong on quantum disk in 2.0.30

Gadi Oxman (gadio@netvision.net.il)
Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:05:27 +0400 (IDT)

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Keith Owens wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:06:59 PDT,
> "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> wrote:
> >hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/17152kB Cache, LBA, CHS=790/255/63
> hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY6480A, 6204MB w/67kB Cache, LBA, CHS=13446/15/63, DMA

It seems that the two bytes in the 16 bits value were somehow swapped:

17152kB <--> 34304 sectors <--> 0x8600 <--> 0x0086 <--> 134 sectors <-->67kB

Gadi