From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 6 18:18:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA15953 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mescaline.gnu.ai.mit.edu (devnull@mescaline.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA15948 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mescaline.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id VAA05470; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 21:17:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 21:17:49 -0400 Message-Id: <199707070117.VAA05470@mescaline.gnu.ai.mit.edu> From: "Joel N. Weber II" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, francisco@natserv.com In-reply-to: <19970706184711.RL39115@uriah.heep.sax.de> (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Subject: Re: I will sue FreeBSD project (..attempt at a joke..) x-url: http://www.red-bean.com/~nemo x-attribution: nemo x-foobar: Nice computers don't go down. Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:47:11 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) The joke aside, better sue the inventors of PCs. While all the disks have been block-addressed internally for years now, the PC is still of the dreadful opinion it would need a ``geometry'' for handling a disk. That's the root of all evil (along with all the consequences of this geometry, like a stumpled BIOS, an fdisk table with two redundant specifications of where a slice starts and ends, etc.) Perhaps people now understand why i love the ``dangerously dedicated'' mode... it doesn't care much for anything like a ``geometry''. Actually, I recently added a disk to a NetBSD alpha, and the thing still needs a geometry... (And yes, it was an 8.5 GB SCSI disk...)