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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, randy@zyzzyva.com
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Subject: Re: Mapped geometry vs. Actual
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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.