From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 23 15:21:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18640 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:21:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA18635 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:21:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA02145; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:20:49 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA20390; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:20:49 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id AAA26138; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:09:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603232309.AAA26138@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:09:09 +0100 (MET) Cc: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603231944.LAA12669@kachina.jetcafe.org> from "Dave Hayes" at Mar 23, 96 11:44:39 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)