From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 22 14:20:46 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F82437B4EC; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@elia.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA20210; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:20:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from elia.heep.sax.de (uucp@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id XAA07040; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:13:41 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j@elia.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by elia.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02188; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:30:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:30:43 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Peter Wemm , 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> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mail-Followup-To: Jordan Hubbard , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <80855.979537248@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <80855.979537248@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from Jordan Hubbard on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:40:48PM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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