In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew writes: >Hi, > >Under FreeBSD 4.x the ioctl DIOCGDINFO could be used to retrieve the >number of cylinders, heads and sectors of a drive. This could be called on >/dev/ad0 for example. Under FreeBSD 5 it seems to produce "Inappropriate >ioctl for device" unless you call it on an individual partition >(/dev/ad0s1a for example). > >Is there a way around this?
Use the ioctls you find in <sys/disk.h> they should work on all disk devices. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
