From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND] [PATCH] ide: fix GET_CONFIGURATION DVD-ROM support
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:53:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801042153.09808.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080105010230.GA2230@miranda.arrow>
On Friday 04 January 2008 19:02:30 Stuart Brady wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:25:25PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Friday 04 January 2008 04:02:07 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> > > > - buf[7] = total_sectors <= 1433600 ? 0x08 : 0x10; /*
> > > > current profile */
> >
> > Where does the constant come from, anyway?
>
> 1433600? Seems it's the number of 512 KiB blocks in a 700 MiB CD image
> (700 * 1024 * 2).
Except that according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM it's actually 703
and 1/8 binary megabytes (360,000 sectors *2048 bytes), which would be
1440000.
And we all know wikipedia's never wrong:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
Rob
--
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 7:36 [Qemu-devel] [RESEND] [PATCH] ide: fix GET_CONFIGURATION DVD-ROM support Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-04 10:02 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-05 0:25 ` Rob Landley
2008-01-05 1:02 ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-05 1:57 ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-05 2:06 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-05 3:53 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2008-01-05 10:28 ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-06 2:22 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-06 13:57 ` Stuart Brady
2008-01-06 14:32 ` Andreas Färber
2008-01-07 0:38 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-07 0:23 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-05 3:36 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-06 9:22 ` Rob Landley
2008-01-07 4:47 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
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