From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 6 9:31:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A5237B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:31:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CCFB43E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:31:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA6HV1pk028151; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:31:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:30:37 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021106.103037.130407616.imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM/libdisk problem on pc98 From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <99083.1036398850@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20021104.170202.85350015.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> <99083.1036398850@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <99083.1036398850@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : In message <20021104.170202.85350015.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Takahashi Yoshihiro : writes: : >The test program for libdisk is a failure in pc98 disks. : > : >I wonder at why pc98 disks don't have their type ('ty') in the result : >of kern.geom.conftxt, but i386 disks have. : : I still have practically no documentation of the PC98 format and no : hardware I can test on, so I am pretty unable to do anything sane. I have translated some Japanese docs that I was able to find, through the kind assistance of kawanobe-san. I took a trip to the local technical library, but the articles he pointed me at were unavailable. I'll be happy to continue to translate docs that help explain the format. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message