Re: disklabel: where is "type" documented

Henry Nelson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 05:11:34PM -0600, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> Are these values from <sys/disklabel.h> what you're looking for?
> 
>     /* d_type values: */
>     #define DKTYPE_DEFN(x) \
>     x(UNKNOWN,      0,      "unknown") \
>     x(SMD,          1,      "SMD")          /* SMD, XSMD; VAX hp/up */ \
>     x(MSCP,         2,      "MSCP")         /* MSCP */ \
>     x(DEC,          3,      "old DEC")      /* other DEC (rk, rl) */ \
>     x(SCSI,         4,      "SCSI")         /* SCSI */ \
>     x(ESDI,         5,      "ESDI")         /* ESDI interface */ \

Yes, I think this is what I wanted -- but I don't see anything applicable
to the kinds of disks I use these days.  For ATA/66 should I use "ESDI",
or is it best to use "unknown" for anything newer than ca. 2000?

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henry nelson
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