Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:40:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk headache Message-ID: <199701271740.KAA05796@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970127012917.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 27, 97 01:29:17 am
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> > > . The number of BIOS geometry constraints to care for reduces drastic- > > > ally, so you can usually (*) ignore any geometry issues. > > > This is a bogus argument based on the assumption that we wouldn't put > > an absolute sector address in the partition entry like we should so > > a sector-offset based driver (BSD) could still use the partition > > table entry without multiplying out C/H/S values. > > > > Note that we should put the entry there for our parttition: we should > > not rely on a DOS tool to do it correctly for us. > > p.s.: You apparently don't understand what i'm writing about. There's > no DOS tool ever involved in DD mode (and little red daemons will jump > out of the disk if you ever come close to those disks with some DOS > tool at all :-). The BIOS real mode POST-based MBR load is a "DOS tool"... unless you are claiming you can make BIOS calls in protected mode? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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