der Mouse writes:
> Bingo.  The problem, as I understand it, is that the sectors-per-track
> figure varies depending on the cylinder number.  Disk stuff - from the
> disklabel to the FFS layout - tends to assume sec-per-trk is fixed.
> But It Just Ain't So anymore.  I'm not sure what can be done about it;
> I've been toying with some ideas, but they're all very fuzzy as yet.

I've wondered a bit if the FFS architecture might not be obsolete in
the light of the way disks now are built. Not being a file system
performance guru, I wouldn't know...

Perry