Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:30:43 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@elia.heep.sax.de> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <20010222203042.C2043@elia.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <80855.979537248@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from Jordan Hubbard on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:40:48PM -0800 References: <peter@FreeBSD.org> <80855.979537248@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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[sorry, replying to somewhat old mail, but i've now almost caught up with my old commit mails...] As Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Well, last time we settled the issue, the consensus was that the > feature should stop being "waved" at users (e.g. they should not be > asked) but that an obscure key sequence be added for getting at > dangerously dedicated mode. I second this, and it should somehow be visible in a menu of some sort. Until the stupid fdisk misfeature has been completely removed from Peecees where they store the slice starting location in two different values (logical block # and CHS value for INT 0x13 call), the only possible starting value that is consistent across all possible BIOS translations is # 0, and that effectively means DD mode. So the advantage of DD mode is that the disk is transferrable between BIOSes using different translations. We are in general installing all ``serious FreeBSD machines'' at work in DD mode, and i'm pretty sure there are others as well. So we really need this option. (Needless to say, i hate that fdisk sh*t...) -- cheers, J"org 73 de DL8DTL joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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