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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