Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:34:00 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/fdisk fdisk.c Message-ID: <22298.1049103240@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:13:43 %2B1000." <20030331140740.R17363@gamplex.bde.org>
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In message <20030331140740.R17363@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >This is more broken than I thought. fdisk now defaults to a wrong geometry >in all cases where the BIOS geometry differs from the firmware geometry. > >The default geometry was H=1/S=1 or whatever is returned by DIOCGDINFO >until this was broken in -current. This is still non-broken in RELENG_4. I don't particularly care for what numbers we use, but I do not want a lot of elaborate DWIM code since in this particular case the user had better know exactly what she is doing anyway. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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