Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 10:39:50 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bugs in/near installation 1104 SNAP Message-ID: <1193.815823590@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 1995 09:39:59 %2B0100." <199511080840.JAA15199@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > **** Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4000) disagrees with > > > **** disk label (1008) > > Why is this `warning' still there? I've shot it in disklabel(8), and > i know David has been pulling the fix into 2.1, too. It's also in newfs... > > > Isn't this a totally horrible and inefficient way to manage a disk? > > > > Talk to Poul-Henning.. :-) We've been over this one before. Again, I > > probably won't try to address this one. > > It's only inefficient for Real Disks (e.g. an ST251A ``Kalashnikov'' :). Actually it isn't that inefficient, the cylinder/rotational stuff doesn't buy you much unless you have at least 10 heads... > That raises the question: what are owners of such poor devices > supposed to do in order to avoid the faked geometry? Well, they can give params to newfs from the menu in sysinstall, or they can do it on the commandline later. Don't worry about it... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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