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Date:      Mon, 11 May 1998 20:30:23 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-release@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall devices.c
Message-ID:  <199805111030.UAA11259@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>I think the SCSI cdroms should also use 'a'
>>(I may be wrong since a lot has changed since I wrote it)

I wrote:
>Yes, the cd driver generates a (buggy) fake partition with only
>an 'a' entry.  Bugs:
>1) the fstype for the 'a' entry is 4.4LFS.
>2) the size for the 'a' entry seems to be correct for 512-byte
>   sectors, but it should be in 2048-byte sectors.  The
>   sectors/unit entry is in 2048-byte sectors.  disklabel(8)
>   warns about the size being too large.

Howerver, the 'c' partition works anyway.  More bugs and bogons:
3) no bounds checking for the 'c' partition.
4) bounds checking for the 'a' partition depends on 512-byte sectors,
   i.e., it depends on one of the bugs in 2).

Bruce

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