Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 11:44:39 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <199603231944.LAA12669@kachina.jetcafe.org>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
>Andreas was wrong here. Fdisk needs the geometry the BIOS is using --
>not the geometry the disk claims to be. (The latter is largely
>irrelevant, that's why it's hidden by default. Anyways, it cannot be
>expressed in plain C/H/S for any modern disk.)
Given the nature of the dissention about what this geometry really
means, isn't there a sufficiently powerful abstraction one can use
to represent the information that fdisk and disklabel need...one
that covers all drives?
If you have that, writing any user inferface is MUCH easier.
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>>> Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org <<<
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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