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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:15:32 +0900 (JST)
From:      Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>
To:        xcllnt@mac.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gpart
Message-ID:  <20081219.181532.241936859.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EA5F491-CC52-43EC-AC03-F50F8B2D6186@mac.com>
References:  <200812171743.mBHHhMd3010561@svn.freebsd.org> <20081218.194137.191463900.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <4EA5F491-CC52-43EC-AC03-F50F8B2D6186@mac.com>

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In article <4EA5F491-CC52-43EC-AC03-F50F8B2D6186@mac.com>
Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> writes:

> >> 4. It's failed to recognize a big SCSI disk as BSD slice.
> 
> Can you elaborate.

Please see:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2008-September/008627.html

The da0 has a BSD slice.  GEOM_BSD/GEOM_PC98 recognize it correctly.
But the gpart does not.  From debug printf (dmesg.txt), it seems that
the gpart read incorrect sector.


> >> 5. A (bit strange) FAT slice is recoginized as BSD slice.
> 
> This is probably a priority issue between bsd and pc98.
> (and thus a priority issue between mbr and pc98). In
> particular, g_part_bsd returns G_PART_PROBE_PRI_HIGH.
> It looks like g_part_pc98 needs to have the highest
> priority. I'll send you a patch for review shortly.

Thanks.

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TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>



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