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Date:      Sun, 04 Aug 96 09:39:26 PST
From:      BRETT_GLASS@ccgate.infoworld.com
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, randy@zyzzyva.com
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mapped geometry vs. Actual
Message-ID:  <9607048391.AA839174215@ccgate.infoworld.com>

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> FreeBSD's only interest in the disk geometry is to match whatever the
> BIOS thinks, so that it can correctly locate the beginning of its
> partition on the disk.  Finito.

Is this really true? It seems as if it also tries to force disk slices to
cylinder boundaries -- which is silly on ZBR drives or when sector mapping
is done.



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