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Date:      Sat, 09 Oct 2004 02:39:58 +0900 (JST)
From:      Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_pc98.c src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.h ata-cbus.c ata-disk.c
Message-ID:  <20041009.023958.41719880.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200410071737.i97Hb9TU038301@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200410071737.i97Hb9TU038301@repoman.freebsd.org>

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In article <200410071737.i97Hb9TU038301@repoman.freebsd.org>
S=F8ren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> sos         2004-10-07 17:37:09 UTC
> =

>   FreeBSD src repository
> =

>   Modified files:
>     sys/geom             geom_pc98.c =

>     sys/dev/ata          ata-all.h ata-cbus.c ata-disk.c =

>   Log:
>   Move the PC98 specific geometry "gunk" to geom_pc98.c where it belo=
ngs.
>   This also adds support for bigger disks on the controller I have ac=
cess to,
>   and maybe others if I understood the adhoc methods used on those.
>   =

>   Those with more PC98 bigdrive controllers it is hereby invited to a=
dd/fix
>   support for those in geom_pc98.c and not using #ifdef PC98 all over=
 the place.


This broke non-ATA disk supports.  We need to use different way for
geometry translation between ATA and non-ATA disks.  And, your
'BigDrive' support has some problems, it cannot use 'BigDrive' as root
filesystem and it is incompatibility with the other OSs.

---
TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>



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