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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:39:59 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, bugs@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bugs in/near installation 1104 SNAP
Message-ID:  <199511080840.JAA15199@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <656.815776457@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 7, 95 12:34:17 pm

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > ****	Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4000) disagrees with
> > ****	disk label (1008)

Why is this `warning' still there?  I've shot it in disklabel(8), and
i know David has been pulling the fix into 2.1, too.

> > 	Isn't this a totally horrible and inefficient way to manage a disk?
> 
> Talk to Poul-Henning.. :-)  We've been over this one before.  Again, I
> probably won't try to address this one.

It's only inefficient for Real Disks (e.g. an ST251A ``Kalashnikov'' :).

That raises the question: what are owners of such poor devices
supposed to do in order to avoid the faked geometry?

> > 5.	/bin/797 is still broken.  Probeonly can't find the "X" you 
> > 	supposedly just installed and fails.
> 
> 797?  You've lost me.  What's a /bin/797?

PR # bin/797?


-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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