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Date:      Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:09:09 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes)
Subject:   Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk
Message-ID:  <199603232309.AAA26138@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603231944.LAA12669@kachina.jetcafe.org> from "Dave Hayes" at Mar 23, 96 11:44:39 am

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As Dave Hayes wrote:

> 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?

No, it depends on the type and brand of your SCSI adapter, IDE BIOS,
etc.  Sometimes even on the revision level.  It is entirely a BIOS
thing, FreeBSD doesn't really care for it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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