On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:43, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 	Hello,
>
> when my ULTRA60 boots NetBSD 4.99.3 I get the following kernel messages:
>
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <HITACHI, DK32EJ72NSUN72G, PQ0B> disk fixed
> sd0: 70007 MB, 14089 cyl, 24 head, 424 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 143374738 sectors
> sd0: sync (50.00ns offset 16), 16-bit (40.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
> sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <HITACHI, DK32EJ72NSUN72G, PQ0B> disk fixed
> sd1: 70007 MB, 14089 cyl, 24 head, 424 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 143374738 sectors
> sd1: sync (50.00ns offset 16), 16-bit (40.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
> sd0: fabricating a geometry 
> sd1: fabricating a geometry
>
> The initial messages look it is detecting the disk layout fine. But why
> is it later fabricating a geometry?

I see this on NetBSD/hp700. I tracked it down to scsipi_size returning weird
results in sd_get_capacity, but I've got no further.

Nick