Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:20:11 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <20011210142011.A75760@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3C1488CF.410BE633@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:05:03AM -0800 References: <20011209102129.F97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20011210004350.6703C3810@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200112092200.fB9M0J660085@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20011210005928.9538A3810@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011210091103.M97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3C1488CF.410BE633@mindspring.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > Joerg Wunsch wrote: > > /The/ major advantage of DD mode was that all BIOSes (so far :) at > > least agree on how to access block 0 and the adjacent blocks, so > > starting our own system there makes those disks portable. > I guarantee you that there are a number of controllers which have > different ideas of how to do soft sector sparing _at the controller > level_ rather than at the drive level. We have dropped support for ESDI controllers long since. :-) Seriously, all the disks we are supporting these days do bad block replacement at the drive level. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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