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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:27:26 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c 
Message-ID:  <199908240327.UAA01153@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:22:16 MDT." <199908240322.VAA43728@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <199908240251.TAA00852@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
> : The only disk for which geometry issues matter is the boot volume.  
> : Ideally we would just use LBA mode and forget all this crap about 
> : "geometry" but we're not quite ready for that yet.
> 
> Are you talking about after we boot, or for the bootblocks?  I didn't
> think the older bioses supported LBA mode...

That's what I meant by "not ready yet".

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\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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