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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