Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:50:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, imp@village.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c Message-ID: <13462.935473811@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:51:19 PDT." <199908240251.TAA00852@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In message <199908240251.TAA00852@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> In message <199908231845.EAA01679@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >> >> >These problems mean that "auto" on a slice can't be implemented properly >> >without solving the old problem of mapping drives to BIOS drive numbers >> >so that the table of BIOS geometries can be used. >> >> Does anyone know if the average PnP table is any help in this ? > >No; the PnP table doesn't reflect installed disks, and anyway has no >way of knowing what our device search order is. > >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. Doesn't help us unless the BIOS does so. Our problem is that we must know what the bios does, no matter what that is. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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