Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:48:50 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe.karthauser@geomerics.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? Message-ID: <200804250848.51285.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200804162303.28982.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <F5114451B5F49649A9337243D4F8E46909C472F7@THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net> <20080416122944.GA29115@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200804162303.28982.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wednesday 16 April 2008 09:33:19 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings. > > > > Which begs the question -- why are we still spitting that warning out > > during the fdisk portion of sysinstall? > > I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems care > about geometry and those that don't. MBR's still have C/H/S in their tables. However, we actually use EDD by default now in 7 and so the C/H/S is pretty much never used. The GPT boot stuff only uses LBAs and EDD. -- John Baldwin
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