From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 17:16: 1 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0995637B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF9743E3B; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id CEFF1812AE; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:45:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:45:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org, mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, bakul@bitblocks.com, nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <20021025001556.GB53469@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org> <20021024233323.GV53469@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021024.180829.01187801.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021024.180829.01187801.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 24 October 2002 at 18:08:29 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20021024233323.GV53469@wantadilla.lemis.com> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >>> How about Adaptec SCSI BIOS's and other "smart" BIOS's that look >>> at the MBR to guess what geometry you are using so that they can >>> adjust their BIOS to DTRT? These choke if you don't have a valid >>> MBR. >> >> They do? How do my -CURRENT machines work then? > > All FreeBSD disks have MBRs. The DD disks that some people use have > them, they are just hidden from you. But they're not valid MBRs. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message