Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 21:17:49 -0400 From: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, francisco@natserv.com Subject: Re: I will sue FreeBSD project (..attempt at a joke..) Message-ID: <199707070117.VAA05470@mescaline.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970706184711.RL39115@uriah.heep.sax.de> (j@uriah.heep.sax.de)
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:47:11 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) The joke aside, better sue the inventors of PCs. While all the disks have been block-addressed internally for years now, the PC is still of the dreadful opinion it would need a ``geometry'' for handling a disk. That's the root of all evil (along with all the consequences of this geometry, like a stumpled BIOS, an fdisk table with two redundant specifications of where a slice starts and ends, etc.) Perhaps people now understand why i love the ``dangerously dedicated'' mode... it doesn't care much for anything like a ``geometry''. Actually, I recently added a disk to a NetBSD alpha, and the thing still needs a geometry... (And yes, it was an 8.5 GB SCSI disk...)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199707070117.VAA05470>