Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:33:35 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611242133.NAA00698@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <306.848870190@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 24, 96 10:16:30 pm"
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> In message <2962.848862355@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > >> X/64/32 is okay. Basically, Jordan, the entire message is a big > >> bogosity at all. I've always been annoyed by it. Why not leave it > >> alone in the DD case? (NB: i _don't_ advocate for the latter change > >> for 2.2, but for 3.0-current.) > > > >Or we could get Poul-Henning to DTRT with libdisk - that would > >be a concept, and even the correct place to handle it. :-) > > I actually looked at this, and there are some comments in order: > > 1. I'm still not sure we know what TRT is. Although the MB/64hd/32sect > sounds like the best bet to me. I agree on the now knowing for sure what TRT is, I kinda liked the suggestion of defaulting to 0/0/0 and forcing the user to enter values, atleast that stops the X/1/1 problem dead in its track. > > 2. Even if we did, I'd need a very dedicated tester with an NCR > controller to help me test it out on the only HW we know of that > fails. The NCR deals just fine with MB/64h/32s, I have 5 systems here running that way with disk sizes running from 500MB to 4.5G, all on NCR, all using MB/64/32. > 3. The unspecified German HeldenProgrammer that implemented the DD > mode clearly didn't bother with data-hiding, since he's fiddling > the internal libdisk variables in sysinstall rather than calling :-( Ouuch! > Set_Bios_Geom() and a fitting "punishment" could be to "award" him > the task of making it work correctly :-) > > How's that ? :-) > > -- > 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. > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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