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Date:      Mon, 11 May 1998 04:03:57 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-release@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall devices.c 
Message-ID:  <11199.894884637@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 20:11:39 %2B1000." <199805111011.UAA08264@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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This sounds to me like I should keep right on using `c' for
SCSI then!

What the heck, it works (I can, at least, test the SCSI and IDE
CD installs and they both work fine).

- Jordan

> >I think the SCSI cdroms should also use 'a'
> >(I may be wrong since a lot has changed since I wrote it)
> 
> Yes, the cd driver generates a (buggy) fake partition with only
> an 'a' entry.  Bugs:
> 1) the fstype for the 'a' entry is 4.4LFS.
> 2) the size for the 'a' entry seems to be correct for 512-byte
>    sectors, but it should be in 2048-byte sectors.  The
>    sectors/unit entry is in 2048-byte sectors.  disklabel(8)
>    warns about the size being too large.
> 
> Bruce


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